gall

I noun

1)

she had the gall to ask for money

Syn:

effrontery, impudence, impertinence, cheek, cheekiness, insolence, audacity, temerity, presumption, cockiness, nerve, shamelessness, disrespect, bad manners; informal face, chutzpah; sauce, sass

See note at temerity

2)

scholarly gall was poured on this work

Syn:

bitterness, resentment, rancor, bile, spleen, malice, spite, spitefulness, malignity, venom, vitriol, poison

II 1. noun

1)

this was a gall that she frequently had to endure

Syn:

irritation, irritant, annoyance, vexation, nuisance, provocation, bother, torment, plague, thorn in one's side/flesh; informal aggravation, bore, headache, hassle, pain, pain in the neck, pain in the butt

2)

a bay horse with a gall on its side

Syn:

sore, ulcer, ulceration; abrasion, scrape, scratch, graze, chafe

2. verb

it galled him that he had to wake early

Syn:

irritate, annoy, vex, anger, infuriate, exasperate, irk, pique, nettle, put out, displease, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, make someone's hackles rise, rub the wrong way; informal aggravate, peeve, miff, rile, needle, get (to), bug, get someone's goat, get/put someone's back up, get someone's dander up, drive mad/crazy, drive round/around the bend, drive up the wall, tee off, tick off, rankle