Galore

(2 syl., hard). A sailor's term, meaning “in abundance.” (Irish, go leor, in abundance.)

For his Poll he had trinkets and gold galore,
Besides of prize-money quite a store.

Jack Robinson.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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