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Gall   /gɔl/   Listen
Gall

noun
1.
An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.  Synonym: saddle sore.
2.
A skin sore caused by chafing.
3.
Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury.
4.
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.  Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment.
5.
A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats.  Synonym: bile.
6.
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.  Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence.
verb
(past & past part. galled; pres. part. galling)
1.
Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing.  Synonyms: chafe, fret.
2.
Irritate or vex.  Synonym: irk.



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"Gall" Quotes from Famous Books



... the city would be destroyed. Having performed this professional duty, Jonah felt that there was nothing left for him but to await with pious resignation the fulfillment of his prophecy. But in this case the unexpected happened, the city repented and was saved. This was gall and wormwood to Jonah. His orderly mind was offended by the disarrangement of his schedule. What was the use of being a prophet if things did not turn out as he said? So we are told "it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry," Still he clung to the hope that, in the end, things ...
— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers
... call "galettes,"' observed Nimrod, biting one. 'Flour an' water, baked in the ashes. Turnpike bread is better—what the ole gall makes to hum.' ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... the express wish of Doctors Pope and Chandler. The immediate cause of her death appeared to have been a dropsy on the chest; but the sufferings which she endured previously to her decease were probably occasioned by six large gall-stones ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... suddenly. To the question in her eyes his glance gave no answer, and for the moment a feeling of despair overcame her. Had she given him up only to the end that his life should be miserable; had she forced him into a marriage whose bonds would gall and chafe him with more deadly and festering wounds as time ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... though, to the best of his power, and then went off to keep his appointment; but the pates a la bechamelle were as ashes, and the gelee au marisquin as gall to his parched, disordered palate. He made himself so intensely disagreeable that poor Heloise thenceforth swore an enmity against his compatriots, which endured to the end of her brief misspent existence. "Gredin d'Anglais, va!" she was wont to say, grinding her little white teeth melodramatically, ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence


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