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galore

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ga⋅lore

  [guh-lawr, -lohr]
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–adverb
in abundance; in plentiful amounts: food and drink galore.
Origin:
1660–70; < Ir go leor enough, plenty (ScotGael gu leòr, leòir), equiv. to go, particle forming predicative adjectives and adverbs + leór enough (OIr lour)
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ga·lore   (gə-lôr', -lōr')   
adj.  In great numbers; in abundance: "with balloons and hot dogs . . . and fireworks galore" (Anne Armstrong).

[Irish Gaelic go leór, enough : go, adv. particle + leór, enough (from Old Irish lour, alteration of roar; see wērə-o- in Indo-European roots).]
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Word Origin & History

galore 
1675, from Ir. go leór, corresponding to Gael. gu leóir "sufficiently, enough."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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