gall

«gall» in Mova's school dictionary: rude, bold cheek: «He had the gall to ask for more after… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (gall — uncountable; a gall, galls); verb (gall, galls, galled, galling)

meaning for a pupil

1) Gall is rude, bold cheek: «He had the gall to ask for more after eating mine!» tree →

2) A gall is a lump on a plant, such as an oak apple, made when an insect lays eggs in it. tree →

3) (old) Gall is bile, a bitter liquid from the liver; the gall bladder stores it. tree →

4) To gall someone is to annoy them a lot because it feels unfair. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday talk, «the gall of it!» shows outrage at rudeness. In science and nature lessons, oak galls are made by tiny wasps; long ago, oak galls were used to make ink. In body science, the gall bladder sits under the liver. In the Bible, «gall» means something very bitter.

examples

• She had the gall to push in front of me. tree →
• What gall! He took my seat and asked for my pencil. tree →
• We found round galls on the oak leaves. tree →
• Old ink was made from oak galls. tree →
• The gall bladder is near the liver. tree →
• It galls me that he got the prize for my idea. tree →
• Wasps cause galls to grow on plants. tree →

note

Uncountable in the «cheek» sense: «have the gall to do something». Adjective «galling» = annoying. Pronounced «gawl». Not to be confused with «Gaul» (old name for France) or «gal» (informal for girl).

In the corpora

• Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
• Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
• He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
• Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gall» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.