| 单词 | gall |
| 释义 | gall (once / 818 pages) 1n 2n 3vn 4nv 5n 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." WORD FAMILYgall: galled, galling, galls+/galling: gallinger, gallingly USAGE EXAMPLESThis, I thought, was the long-awaited last straw, an occasion when Grant not only said no but also perhaps found the request itself galling. New York Times(Mar 27, 2013) What gall that these halfbacks put their preparation for professional careers ahead of their “amateur” pursuits. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) "The level of action now pales into insignificance compared to the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79," says Prof Gregor Gall from the University of Bradford. BBC(Dec 15, 2016) 1 n a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats 2Syn|Hyper bile digestive fluid, digestive juice secretions that aid digestion n the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper cheekiness, crust, freshness, impertinence, impudence, insolence chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity discourtesy, rudeness a manner that is rude and insulting 1v irritate or vex It galls me that we lost the suit Syn|Hyper irk anger make angry 2n a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper bitterness, rancor, rancour, resentment heartburning intense resentment huffishness, sulkinessa feeling of sulky resentment grievance, grudge, scorea resentment strong enough to justify retaliation enviousness, envya feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another covetousnessan envious eagerness to possess something green-eyed monster, jealousya feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) penis envy(psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity enmity, hostility, ill will the feeling of a hostile person 1n an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle Syn|Hyper saddle sore animal disease a disease that typically does not affect human beings 2n a skin sore caused by chafing Hypo|Hyper saddle sore sore on a horseback rider chafed by a saddle sore an open skin infection 3v become or make sore by or as if by rubbing 5Syn|Hyper chafe, fret irritate excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame n abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury Hypo|Hyper oak apple oak gall caused by larvae of a cynipid wasp plant tissue the tissue of a plant |
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