EGAVE

gall

About 2.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
  2. noun A gallbladder.
  3. noun Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
  4. noun Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
  5. noun A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
  6. noun A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
  7. noun A feeling of exasperation.
  8. noun A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Similar words

fret chafe crust saddle sore bitterness irk resentment rancor cheekiness insolence

Often followed by

bladder and to of stones in is was midge

Word family

galled galling galls had the gall has the gall have the gall having the gall sheer gall unmitigated gall

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