gall
noun
[ ɡɔːl ]
• bold and impudent behaviour.
• "the bank had the gall to demand a fee"
Similar:
impudence,
insolence,
impertinence,
cheek,
cheekiness,
nerve,
audacity,
brazenness,
effrontery,
temerity,
presumption,
presumptuousness,
brashness,
shamelessness,
pertness,
boldness,
bad manners,
rudeness,
impoliteness,
brass neck,
brass,
neck,
face,
chutzpah,
cockiness,
sauce,
sauciness,
snash,
sass,
sassiness,
nerviness,
hide,
crust,
malapertness,
procacity,
assumption,
• the contents of the gall bladder; bile (proverbial for its bitterness).
Similar:
acrimony,
resentment,
rancour,
sourness,
acerbity,
asperity,
bitterness,
bile,
spleen,
malice,
spite,
spitefulness,
malignity,
venom,
vitriol,
poison,
malevolence,
virulence,
nastiness,
animosity,
antipathy,
hostility,
enmity,
bad blood,
ill feeling,
ill will,
animus,
choler,
Origin:
Old English gealla (denoting bile), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gal, German Galle ‘gall’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kholē and Latin fel ‘bile’.
gall
noun
• annoyance or resentment.
• "he was filled with gall at the suspected ambitions of his old enemies"
Similar:
irritation,
irritant,
annoyance,
vexation,
pest,
nuisance,
provocation,
bother,
torment,
plague,
source of vexation,
source of irritation,
source of annoyance,
thorn in one's side/flesh,
aggravation,
peeve,
pain,
pain in one's neck,
bind,
bore,
headache,
hassle,
nyaff,
skelf,
pain in the butt,
nudnik,
burr under someone's saddle,
nark,
• a sore on the skin made by chafing.
• "saddle galls"
gall
verb
• make (someone) feel annoyed or resentful.
• "it galled him to have to sit impotently in silence"
Similar:
irritate,
annoy,
vex,
make angry,
make cross,
anger,
exasperate,
irk,
pique,
put out,
displease,
get/put someone's back up,
antagonize,
get on someone's nerves,
rub up the wrong way,
ruffle,
ruffle someone's feathers,
make someone's hackles rise,
raise someone's hackles,
infuriate,
madden,
drive to distraction,
goad,
provoke,
aggravate,
peeve,
hassle,
miff,
rile,
nettle,
needle,
get,
get to,
bug,
hack off,
get under someone's skin,
get in someone's hair,
get someone's goat,
rattle someone's cage,
get someone's dander up,
drive mad/crazy,
drive round the bend,
drive up the wall,
make someone see red,
wind up,
nark,
get across,
get on someone's wick,
give someone the hump,
drive round the twist,
get up someone's nose,
tee off,
tick off,
burn up,
rankle,
ride,
gravel,
rark,
give someone the pip,
exacerbate,
hump,
rasp,
• make sore by rubbing.
• "the straps that galled their shoulders"
Similar:
chafe,
abrade,
rub (against),
rub painfully,
rub raw,
scrape,
graze,
skin,
scratch,
rasp,
bark,
fret,
excoriate,
Origin:
Old English gealle ‘sore on a horse’, perhaps related to gall1; superseded in Middle English by forms from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.
gall
noun
• an abnormal growth formed in response to the presence of insect larvae, mites, or fungi on plants and trees, especially oaks.
• "a single grub feeds on its gall for two years before emerging"
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin galla .
gal.
abbreviation
• gallon(s).
