Gall

Quick meaning: Gall is a noun meaning (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

Meaning

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy, archaic, countable) A gallbladder.
2. (figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
3. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
4. (pathology, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
5. (figurative, uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
6. (physiology, archaic, 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.
7. (countable, technical) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Example Sentences

The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.

In July 1938, that was sufficient to call down contempt and hatred on us, and brand us as men of unmitigated gall.

Prichard, while keeping school, had the unmitigated gall to teach Greek, although he had never studied the subject.

He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.

Word Forms

• galls
• galling
• galled

Synonyms for gall

Depending on context, synonyms include nutgall, rankle, resentment, fret, chafe, rancor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fret, chafe, crust, bitterness, irk, resentment.

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