Gall describes something irritating, like someone very rude. If you barge into a bakery and cut in front of a sweet old lady, then you have gall.
If someone has gall, they're irritating. In fact, as a verb, gall means "to irritate" like new tight jeans that gall your thighs. Gall is "bile," too, like what's in a gall bladder. Back in the days of Hippocrates, if the four humors of the body were out of whack, it affected your spirits. If you had too much bile, or gall, then you'd be aggressive or depressed. It's also a noun for "deep feeling of ill will."
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a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
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the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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irritate or vex
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
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an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle
become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
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abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury
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