[ɡɔːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- bold and impudent behaviour
(e.g: the bank had the gall to demand a fee)

- the contents of the gall bladder; bile (proverbial for its bitterness)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English gealla (denoting bile), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gal, German Galle ‘gall’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kholē and Latin fel ‘bile’

[ɡɔːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- annoyance or resentment
(e.g: he was filled with gall at the suspected ambitions of his old enemies)

- a sore on the skin made by chafing
(e.g: saddle galls)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English gealle ‘sore on a horse’, perhaps related to gall; superseded in Middle English by forms from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch

[ɡɔːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make (someone) feel annoyed or resentful
(e.g: it galled him to have to sit impotently in silence)

- make sore by rubbing
(e.g: the straps that galled their shoulders)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English gealle ‘sore on a horse’, perhaps related to gall; superseded in Middle English by forms from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch

[ɡɔːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an abnormal growth formed in response to the presence of insect larvae, mites, or fungi on plants and trees, especially oaks
(e.g: a single grub feeds on its gall for two years before emerging)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin galla