Connotations of the word "galore"

Solution 1:

Galore means:-

  1. (immediately postpositive) in great numbers or quantity: there were daffodils galore in the park. [Collins Dictionary via the Free Dictionary.

It carries with it the idea that the plenty is a good or desirable thing; you could have whiskey galore or fireworks galore but it would sound very strange to complain about litter galore or dog turds galore in a park or playing field. It isn't archaic.

Solution 2:

Galore is a strange beast.

It must be allowed to be in two word-classes at once.

It is a quantifier, meaning 'many'. But it is unusual in that it comes after the noun (phrase) it modifies

There were pavilions galore spread out across the field.

But it also has attributive (in the sense of 'attributional') weight, with an indication (in its traditional sense) of splendour (pavilions) and / or gaiety (pavilions, whisky), and must therefore be reckoned as a peripheral adjective (modifying the overall situation rather than the noun). So it would not traditionally be used in place of (prenominal) many here:

There were many mutilated bodies lying around the battlefield.

*There were mutilated bodies galore lying around the battlefield.

[Mari-Lou A has pointed out that some (I'd call them perverse) usages, as in Tommy Cooper's ironic 'That's nice, that is!', are encountered in certain registers. Thus 'blood galore' in the latest Dracula film or shoot-em-up. Wicked.]

Most dictionaries give single word classes (they like things neat and tidy), but they don't agree on which fits best. In fact, some dictionaries still don't accept determiners (with subclasses quantifiers ...) as a separate class.