gall
IPA: gˈɔɫ
noun
- (anatomy, dated) A gallbladder.
- (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
- (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
- (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
- (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
- (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To bother or trouble.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To exasperate.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
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Examples of "gall" in Sentences
- I find it particularly galling.
- It was galling to read, frankly.
- This was the most galling for me.
- This scandal is particularly galling.
- The gall bladder holds onto the bile.
- The newspaper ones are particularly galling.
- His hubris in ignoring consensus is galling.
- The aphids feed on the glucose present in the gall.
- This denial is of course galling to Levantine Arabs.
- I find that kind of misconduct to be galling in the extreme.
- In Leviticus 3:4, 10, and 15, the “covering of the liver” refers to the gall bladder.
- The gall is most precious, and the flesh was all taken, but for what purpose I don't know.
- The part that gets my gall is how quickly they were to blame FEMA for every single misfortune.
- & I must be the best tempered fellow in Great Britain for the devil a drop of gall is there in my bile-bag.
- Learn more about the word "gall" and see usage examples across a range of subjects on the Vocabulary.com dictionary.
- i find it amazing that a president of a country that has NO functioning democracy finds it possible to comment on another country†™ s democracy. the gall is nauseating
- I. i.101 (158,2) Though ink be made of gall] Shakespeare, even in this poor conceit, has confounded the vegetable _galls_ used in ink, with the animal _gall_, supposed to be bitter.
- The word gall has appeared in 110 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 7 in the blog post "'Simpsons' Voice Actor Speaks Out About Negotiations With Fox," by Dave Itzkoff:
- The next time the cook cleans out a fowl, ask her to show you the little greenish bladder which she calls the gall and which she takes such care not to burst, because it contains a bitter liquid which, if spilt upon it, would quite ruin the flavor of the fowl.