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

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The gall bladder.
3. noun. Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
4. noun. Impudence; brazen assurance.
5. noun. 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.
6. transitive verb. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
7. transitive 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.
8. transitive verb. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
9. transitive verb. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
10. intransitive verb. To scoff; to jeer.
11. noun. A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
12. noun. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

    Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence

13. noun. a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

    Synonyms: bile

14. noun. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

    Synonyms: bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment

15. noun. abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
16. noun. a skin sore caused by chafing
17. noun. an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
18. verb. irritate or vex

    "It galls me that we lost the suit"

    Synonyms: irk

19. verb. become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

    Synonyms: chafe, fret

Synonyms

cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence, bile, bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment, irk, chafe, fret

Common word forms

galls, galled, galler, galling, gallize, gallous

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