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gall
1[ gawl ]
gall
2[ gawl ]
verb (used with object)
- to vex or irritate greatly:
His arrogant manner galls me.
- to make sore by rubbing; chafe severely:
The saddle galled the horse's back.
verb (used without object)
- to be or become chafed.
- Machinery. (of either of two engaging metal parts) to lose metal to the other because of heat or molecular attraction resulting from friction.
- Metallurgy. (of a die or compact in powder metallurgy) to lose surface material through adhesion to the die.
noun
- something very vexing or irritating.
- a state of vexation or irritation.
- a sore on the skin, especially of a horse, due to rubbing; excoriation.
gall
3[ gawl ]
noun
- any abnormal vegetable growth or excrescence on a plant, caused by various agents, as insects, nematodes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, chemicals, and mechanical injuries.
Gall
4[ gawl ]
noun
- Pizi, 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
gall
1/ ɡɔːl /
noun
- an abnormal outgrowth in plant tissue caused by certain parasitic insects, fungi, bacteria, or mechanical injury
gall
2/ ɡɔːl /
noun
- informal.impudence
- bitterness; rancour
- something bitter or disagreeable
- physiol an obsolete term for bile 1
- an obsolete term for gall bladder
gall.
3abbreviation for
- gallon
gall
4/ ɡɔːl /
noun
- a sore on the skin caused by chafing
- something that causes vexation or annoyance
a gall to the spirits
- irritation; exasperation
verb
- pathol to abrade (the skin, etc) as by rubbing
- tr to irritate or annoy; vex
gall
/ gôl /
- An abnormal swelling of plant tissue, caused by injury or by parasitic organisms such as insects, mites, nematodes, and bacteria. Parasites stimulate the production of galls by secreting chemical irritants on or in the plant tissue. Galls stimulated by egg-laying parasites typically provide a protective environment in which the eggs can hatch and the pupae develop, and they usually do only minor damage to the host plant. Gall-stimulating fungi and microorganisms, such as the bacterium that causes crown gall, are generally considered to be plant diseases.
Other Words From
- un·galled adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of gall1
Origin of gall2
Word History and Origins
Origin of gall1
Origin of gall2
Origin of gall3
Idioms and Phrases
- gall and wormwood, bitterness of spirit; deep resentment.
Example Sentences
The titular diaries were published in 1989, two years after Warhol died at 58 due to complications from a gall bladder surgery.
It’s personal to them … wanting to play with some moxie and gall.
Then I had the gall not only to return but, once in Russia, to release an investigation about Putin’s own corruption.
Tutu had the gall to demand we also sup with our enemies—make ourselves known to each other in what Pope Francis later described as a culture of encounter.
During the spring and summer of 2020, while in treatment for liver cancer, she was also hospitalized for a gall bladder condition and a bile-duct repair.
As far as I know, however, only Gall managed to find a source to verify this.
The unmitigated gall Kennedy displays in defaming the hard work of dedicated researchers is bad enough.
When NYC Prep premiered, it got a lot of flak for the sheer gall of its unreality.
The pair have a wedding story for the ages: “We were married in the hospital after my emergency gall bladder removal!”
And you even had the gall to claim to have turned a new leaf in the pinstripes.
There are no chains to my prison, no steel cuffs to gall the limbs, no guards to threaten and cow me.
Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.
Dressed Monte's withers with liniment greatly reducing swelling from saddle-gall.
Owing to the practice of wearing corsets, gall-stones occur much more commonly in women than in men.
Twenty-five per centum of all women over 60 years of age are found to have gall-stones.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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