gall
When someone has the gall, they are rude and too confident.
Rude or shocking boldness in what someone says or does; impudent audacity.
If something galls you, it makes you angry or upset.
To annoy, offend, or upset someone, especially because something seems unfair or insulting.
Gall is a bitter liquid in the body that helps digest food.
A bitter fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, used in digestion.
A gall is a sore on the skin caused by rubbing.
A sore place on the skin caused by rubbing, especially from clothing, a saddle, or repeated friction.
If something galls you, it rubs your skin and makes it sore.
To rub against the skin repeatedly and cause soreness.
A gall is a lump that grows on a plant, often because of an insect.
An abnormal swelling or growth on a plant, often caused by an insect or other parasite.
Gall can mean bitter anger or resentment.
A feeling of bitter anger or resentment, especially when expressed in speech or writing.
- Base: gall
- Plural: gall, galls
- Base: gall
- 3rd Person Singular: galls
- Present Participle: galling
- Past: galled
gall and wormwood
1extreme bitterness or misery
Something that feels very bitter and painful.
- The memory of that defeat was gall and wormwood to him.
- For her, the whole episode was gall and wormwood.
gall bladder
1organ that stores bile
The gall bladder is a small organ that stores bile.
- She had surgery to remove her gall bladder.
- The gall bladder releases bile after you eat fatty food.
- The doctor checked my gall bladder.
gallstone
1hard stone in gallbladder
A gallstone is a small hard stone that forms in the gallbladder.
- He went to the hospital with severe pain caused by a gallstone.
- An ultrasound showed several gallstones.
have the gall (to do something)
1be rude enough to do
To do something even though it is very rude.
- She had the gall to tell me to calm down after she started the argument.
- He has the gall to call himself a team player.
- They had the gall to raise prices while cutting service.
- He had the gall to blame me.
the gall of it!
1exclamation of rude nerve
You say this when someone is very rude.
- The gall of it—he borrowed my car and returned it with an empty tank!
- The gall of that politician, pretending nothing happened.