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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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A-GILDROO, adv. Into confusion, to wreck and ruin.Ork. 1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 180:
Her “sigh —” whitever she caa'd it [psychology] gaed aa' a-gildroo wae her.

[A, pref.², + Gildro, 2. ?Cf. vildro, s.v. Villyaroo.]