Gall
/ɡɔːl/noun
Bold and rude behavior.
He had the gall to ask for a raise when he is always late.
Often appears as...
- have the gall
- enormous gall
noun
A sore on the skin, especially one made by chafing or rubbing.
The tight shoes caused a painful gall on his foot.
Often appears as...
- painful gall
- cause a gall
noun
A small, abnormal growth on a plant caused by insects or fungi.
The tree has been affected by gall caused by the gall wasp.
Often appears as...
- gall on plants
- cause galls
noun
The bitter fluid inside a living body, especially in the liver.
Gall is produced in the liver and helps in digestion.
Often appears as...
- gall bladder
- produce gall
noun
Bold and rude behavior.
He had the gall to ask for a raise when he is always late.
Often appears as...
- have the gall
- enormous gall
noun
A sore on the skin, especially one made by chafing or rubbing.
The tight shoes caused a painful gall on his foot.
Often appears as...
- painful gall
- cause a gall
noun
A small, abnormal growth on a plant caused by insects or fungi.
The tree has been affected by gall caused by the gall wasp.
Often appears as...
- gall on plants
- cause galls
noun
The bitter fluid inside a living body, especially in the liver.
Gall is produced in the liver and helps in digestion.
Often appears as...
- gall bladder
- produce gall
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Implying disrespect or insult; often used to criticize someone's boldness.
She had the gall to cheat on the test and brag about it.
Pro Tip 2/3Related to Nerve
'Gall' suggests nerve or boldness in a negative light, similar to 'audacity' but ruder.
It takes a lot of gall to openly break the rules.
Pro Tip 3/3Confrontational
Suggests a challenging or insolent attitude that can provoke confrontation.
His gall in interrupting the speaker was seen as confrontational.
Compare with
angerbitterfuryhostilityindignationirerancourresent
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Nuclear Plant Breakdown...
when we start to apply force to this lift we're gonna peel it apart right there and that's where the potential contamination is gonna be coming from right out inside that crack getting really close to seeing this thing flying out if it comes up crooked it could scrape metal off the blade carriers what they call galling I can actually see
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Bear Organ Trafficking PIPE...
me okay and okay if you don't feel comfortable talking me now I'm gonna give you a card it's yourself in life I am I am wearing my uniform I understand and yeah something's like I started looking around we start talking about gall bladder nobody says anything
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Why are we happy? Why...
Is there really nothing good or bad? Is it really the case that gall bladder surgery and a trip to Paris are just the same thing? That seems like a one-question IQ test. They can't be exactly the same. In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth,
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A brief history of...
that was common throughout Europe. Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions. In China,
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Making sense of how life...
working together to perform the same job, we then call it an organ system. Take the digestive system, for example. It's made up of a mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gall bladder, small intestine, and large intestine,
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Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever. It's my country's history with alcohol prohibition and Al Capone, times 50. Which is why it's particularly galling to me
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Compelling Models for...
and my aunt is showing me where she keeps her expensive dried seafood goods like fish water and manta ray gills I had I had no idea that she had these things she starts showing me other things she had she had cow gall stone
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Ladies and gentlemen,...
this to me huh soon as I take it free cannot be but I am pigeon liver and lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody body villain
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Life of Insects PIPE...
this tiny insect scarcely bigger than a mosquito is one of these gall wasps there are lots of them flying around the earth flowers most of the flowers by now have been pollinated and are about to
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Up Oshetna Creek Without...
possible the water it may be their only chance trooper galls only lead is the last known location of the hunters campsite the family had given us some initial coordinates to go to
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Nuclear Plant Breakdown...
when we start to apply force to this lift we're gonna peel it apart right there and that's where the potential contamination is gonna be coming from right out inside that crack getting really close to seeing this thing flying out if it comes up crooked it could scrape metal off the blade carriers what they call galling I can actually see
Video examples
Bear Organ Trafficking PIPE...
me okay and okay if you don't feel comfortable talking me now I'm gonna give you a card it's yourself in life I am I am wearing my uniform I understand and yeah something's like I started looking around we start talking about gall bladder nobody says anything
Video examples
Why are we happy? Why...
Is there really nothing good or bad? Is it really the case that gall bladder surgery and a trip to Paris are just the same thing? That seems like a one-question IQ test. They can't be exactly the same. In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth,
Video examples
A brief history of...
that was common throughout Europe. Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions. In China,
Video examples
Making sense of how life...
working together to perform the same job, we then call it an organ system. Take the digestive system, for example. It's made up of a mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gall bladder, small intestine, and large intestine,
Video examples
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...
just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever. It's my country's history with alcohol prohibition and Al Capone, times 50. Which is why it's particularly galling to me
Video examples
Compelling Models for...
and my aunt is showing me where she keeps her expensive dried seafood goods like fish water and manta ray gills I had I had no idea that she had these things she starts showing me other things she had she had cow gall stone
Video examples
Ladies and gentlemen,...
this to me huh soon as I take it free cannot be but I am pigeon liver and lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody body villain
Video examples
Life of Insects PIPE...
this tiny insect scarcely bigger than a mosquito is one of these gall wasps there are lots of them flying around the earth flowers most of the flowers by now have been pollinated and are about to
Video examples
Up Oshetna Creek Without...
possible the water it may be their only chance trooper galls only lead is the last known location of the hunters campsite the family had given us some initial coordinates to go to
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media's bottom line - in its way as galling as Fox's daily agitprop - was the fact that liberal media did not have the talent or the savvy or the passion to match conservative media's success.
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Frances O'Grady
British Activist
The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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Sade Adu
Nigerian Musician
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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Rose Leslie
Scottish Actress
I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.
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J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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Jean Kerr
American Playwright
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
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Joe E. Lewis
American Comedian
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
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Winston Marshall
British Musician
We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!
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John Locke
English Philosopher
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media's bottom line - in its way as galling as Fox's daily agitprop - was the fact that liberal media did not have the talent or the savvy or the passion to match conservative media's success.
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Frances O'Grady
British Activist
The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.
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Sade Adu
Nigerian Musician
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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Rose Leslie
Scottish Actress
I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.
Quote examples
J. D. Salinger
American Novelist
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
Quote examples
Jean Kerr
American Playwright
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
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Joe E. Lewis
American Comedian
They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
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Winston Marshall
British Musician
We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!
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John Locke
English Philosopher
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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