GALL
Dictionary entry overview: What does gall mean?
• GALL (noun)
The noun GALL has 6 senses:
1. an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
2. a skin sore caused by chafing
3. abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
4. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
5. a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
6. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
Familiarity information: GALL used as a noun is common.
• GALL (verb)
The verb GALL has 2 senses:
1. become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
2. irritate or vex
Familiarity information: GALL used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GALL (noun)
Meaning:
An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
saddle sore; gall
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
Meaning:
A skin sore caused by chafing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
sore (an open skin infection)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gall"):
saddle sore (sore on a horseback rider chafed by a saddle)
Meaning:
Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gall"):
oak apple (oak gall caused by larvae of a cynipid wasp)
Meaning:
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
resentment; rancour; rancor; bitterness; gall
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gall"):
heartburning (intense resentment)
huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)
grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)
enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)
Meaning:
A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
bile; gall
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
digestive fluid; digestive juice (secretions that aid digestion)
Meaning:
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
cheekiness; insolence; impudence; impertinence; crust; freshness; gall
Hypernyms ("gall" is a kind of...):
discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gall"):
chutzpa; chutzpah; hutzpah ((Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity)
• GALL (verb)
Meaning:
Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
chafe; gall; fret
Hypernyms (to "gall" is one way to...):
irritate (excite to an abnormal condition, of chafe or inflame)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Irritate or vex
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
irk; gall
Context example:
It galls me that we lost the suit
Hypernyms (to "gall" is one way to...):
anger (make angry)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The performance is likely to gall Sue
