galling
adjective
[ ˈɡɔːlɪŋ ]
• causing annoyance or resentment; annoying.
• "it would be galling to lose your job because of a dispute with a customer"
Similar:
annoying,
irritating,
vexing,
vexatious,
infuriating,
maddening,
irksome,
provoking,
exasperating,
trying,
tiresome,
troublesome,
bothersome,
displeasing,
disagreeable,
aggravating,
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Old English gealle ‘sore on a horse’, perhaps related to gall1; superseded in Middle English by forms from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.
