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gall

/ɡɑl/

noun

Meaning

  • Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

  • The gall bladder.

  • Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

  • A feeling of exasperation.

  • Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

  • A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

  • A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

  • A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

verb

Meaning

  • To bother or trouble.

  • To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

  • To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

  • To exasperate.

  • To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

    "Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface."

  • To scoff; to jeer.