😏 Rude boldness 😠 To annoy 🌱 A plant swelling 🟡 A bitter fluid 😠 Bitter anger 🤕 To rub sore 🤕 A skin sore

to gall

1 8.1

To make a body part sore by rubbing

verb
/ɡɔl/

: rozar

"Now, son, I've got a pair of handcuffs here, but they have a way of galling a man's wrists."

It's grippy when it gets hot, it likes to gall galling means that aluminum has got hot enough to it's gotten hot enough to bond to steel.

Examples

What galls me more is how shallow, linear, scripted garbage like God of War continues to sell when DS does.

Blog text (22)
Iranians are galled that Arabs—whom they have traditionally considered inferior—thrive while they lag behind.

Academic text (2007)
Furthermore, it galls me to see the way humans think.

Blog text (22)
This latter relationship, in particular, has galled critics of American organized labor.

Academic text (2003)
Nor was he at all sure Ada would find his offer welcome, not from a man galled in body and mind as he had become.

Fiction book (1997)
That galled him.

Fiction book (2001)
They had worked from morning to night in sweat-soaked clothes that bound and galled.

Fiction book (1997)
I was particularly galled to read that I planned to stick a peephole through the common wall between our apartments so that I could spy on him.

Fiction book (2002)
It just galls my posterior when I think of all the money it takes to get a vet's degree.

Blog text (14)
Wearing tight shoes caused his heel to gall after the long hike.

Synonyms

to chafe

vsto gall

5 5.6

To make skin sore by rubbing

refers specifically to living skin or body rather than any surface

to fret

vsto gall

1 6.7

Wear away skin or material by rubbing

applies to skin or body soreness rather than surface erosion

Antonyms

to heal

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

to soothe

63 3.4

To make someone feel calmer or reduce their pain

Idioms

to have the gall

Informal

14 7.9

Be bold enough to do something rude or shocking

gall dang

Archaic

9.9

A mild rude word used to show annoyance or strong feeling

Compounds

gall wasp

Specialized

3 8.6

A small wasp that makes growths on oak leaves where its young grow

gall bladder

Specialized

2 3.9

A small organ under the liver that stores bile until it enters the intestine

crown gall

Specialized

8.4

A bacterial disease that makes lumps at the base of a plant stem

cynipid gall wasp

Specialized

9.9

A small wasp that makes round growths called galls on oak trees and other plants

gall and wormwood

Archaic

9.9

A very bitter experience that feels painful and upsetting

gall gnat

Specialized

9.9

A small fly that makes bumps on plant leaves or stems

gall midge

Specialized

9.9

A small delicate fly whose young make small round bumps on plants

gall of the earth

Specialized

9.9

A plant that lives for several years with drooping clusters of pink flowers and broad leaves like a lion's paw

gall-berry

9.9

An evergreen holly shrub with thick leaves and small black berries

spruce gall aphid

Specialized

9.9

A small insect that makes pineapple-shaped growths on young spruce branches

How Irritating

to gall

1 8.1

to abrade

5 8.1

to rub

600 1.0

Surface Forms

gall infinitive

galled past

galled past participle

galling present participle

galls third person singular

Etymology

The verb gall comes from the same old word for a sore and originally meant to rub and make skin raw, so imagine a strap that slowly wears the skin. So to gall someone or a body part is to chafe it until it becomes sore.