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Meanings of gall in English

Portuguese
bílis
Catalan
còlera
Spanish
cólera
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A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

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bílis
Portuguese
atrevimento
Catalan
barra

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.

atrevimento
Portuguese
rancor
Catalan
amargor
Spanish
rencor

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.

rancor
Spanish
molestar

Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing.

molestar
Usage of gall in English
1
It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
2
The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
The Indiscretion of the Duchess / Being a Story Concerning Two L...
3
She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
The Power of Faith / Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The...
4
The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the L...
5
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
Death of a Red Heroine
6
And then to have the gall to threaten Lem with legal action?
Earth Afire
7
Small wonder he smoked gall and wormwood in his cigarettes that night.
Wild Wings: A Romance of Youth
8
This contest rouses my gall; my heart is boiling over with wrath.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
9
But there was not one little drop of gall in his blood.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
10
Something else to gall Captain Poland, he thought with a grim chuckle.
The Only Victor
11
A stone, as large as a common gooseberry, was in the gall-bladder.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
12
And yet every word of it was gall and wormwood to him.
The Prime Minister
13
Physicians were accustomed to order doses of the gall of wild swine.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
14
I warm to a man who hath some gall in his liver.
The White Company
15
He wrote well, but was disposed to dip his pen in gall.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 / From Lincoln to Garfield, w...
16
The attention she attracted was to Maurice like gall to a wound.
Maurice Guest
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