Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a glutton.

1542		Udall (trans.) Erasmus’ Apophthegms (1564) Bk I 133: The bealyes of gully-guttes (that can naught dooe, but eate & drynke, & slepe).
1599		Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 5: They were not such Gargantuan boystrous gulliguts as they haue beene reckoned.
1653		Rabelais Author’s Prologue (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel I 5: A certaine gulligut Fryer.
1673		R. Cotgrave Fr. & Eng. Dict. (rev. edn) n.p.: Goulard: m. A ravener , devourer, swal- (owtr, gully-gut, greedy feeder.
1692		R. L’Estrange Fables n.p.: A gulligut friar [F&H].
1822		R. Nares Gloss. (1888) I 395: gulligut. A burlesque word. A devourer, one of capacious paunch. More serious derivations have been given; but is it not, probably, from gully; to mark a person whose maw was like a sink, or gully, into which all sorts of things went down?
1850		E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime 191: Gulligut, boor, filthard, bardash!
1976		E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 73: By the ballocks of Hercules, his countenance resembles his gullygut haunches.

1. the throat.

1933		‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 243: The throat, which is also known as [...] gully-hole.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 512/1: C.19–20.
1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 22: Here’s hoping to have one down the gully with you soon.

2. the vagina.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 149: Gorge, f. The female pudendum; ‘the gully’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 182: The simplest words in common use for this ‘nasty thing’ [...] are those accepting the female sexual apparatus as a simple receptacle. These include [...] trench, gulley or gulley-hole.

(US) a farmer, a peasant.

1936		Collier’s 97 100/1: I’m thinking of a young Missouri gully-jumper [...] who hurled a baseball with such tremendous power.
1939		T.J. Farr ‘The Language of the Tennessee Mountain Regions’ in AS XIV:2 90: gully jumper. Farmer.
1947		M. Sandoz Tom-Walker (1984) 84: No damn gully-jumper’s gonna keep you from me.
1967		Billboard 30 Sept. 50/1: Mr. City-Dweller doesn’t consider himself to be a disk jockey’s ‘compadre’ or a female vocalist a ‘gully jumper’.

(US) a heavy downpour of rain.

1889		Tenn. State Board of Health Bulletin 5-6 192/2: That rain was none of your drizzle drazzles; it was a log roller, a stump mover and a gully washer.
1898		J. Dickey Genealogy of the Dickey Family 172: And now, Lord, send us rain ; none of your drizzle-drozzle, but a regular ground soaker and gully washer.
1903		J.W. Fox Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come 59: Send us, not a gentle sizzle-sozzle, but a sod-soaker, O Lord, a gully-washer.
1912		B.W. Green Virginia Folk-Speech 210: Gully-washer.. . A heavy rain that washes gullys in the ground.
1923		K.C. Star 23 Apr. n.p.: He meant to say that what Kansas needs now is a regular ‘gully-washer’; a rain that will fill all the small streams bank full [DA].
1936		R.F. Adams Cowboy Lingo 203: A very hard rain was a ‘gully-washer,’ ‘fence-lifter,’ or ‘goose-drownder’.
1939		P.G. Brewster ‘Folk “Sayings” From Indiana’ in AS XIV:4 263: Cloudbursts are ‘toad stranglers’ or ‘gully washers’.
1949		PADS XI.22 Gully washer.
1951		in AS XXVI:1 74/2: Gully-washer. A graphic term that tests the damage done to the hill-dweller’s land by a heavy rain.
1965–70, 1984		in DARE.
1975		A. Zwinger Run River 110: The dugway [...] is still visible, beveled into the shale cliff, [...] a narrow shelf that must have rutted deeper with every gully washer.