Dictionary Entry
gall
gall is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
- 2noun
The gall bladder.
- 3noun
Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
- 4noun
Impudence; brazen assurance.
- 5noun
An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.
- 6transitive verb
To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
- 7transitive verb
To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.
- 8transitive verb
To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
- 9transitive verb
To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
- 10intransitive verb
To scoff; to jeer.
- 11noun
A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
- 12noun
the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
- 13noun
a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
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- 14noun
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- 15noun
abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
- 16noun
a skin sore caused by chafing
- 17noun
an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
- 18verb
irritate or vex
"It galls me that we lost the suit"
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- 19verb
become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
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