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All 4 letters words made out of gall

gall agll glal lgal algl lagl gall agll glal lgal algl lagl glla lgla glla lgla llga llga allg lalg allg lalg llag llag

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Definitions and meaning of gall

gall

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːl/
• (cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɡɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Homophone: Gaul

Etymology 1

From Middle English galle, from Old English ġealla, galla, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.

The figurative senses (e.g., impudence, brazenness, chutzpah) are related to the literal sense (i.e., bile) via the lasting linguocultural effects of humorism, which governed Western medicine for many centuries before the advent of scientific medicine.

Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ). Also remotely related with yellow.

Noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)

2. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
3. (anatomy, dated, countable) A gallbladder.
4. (physiology, archaic, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
5. (figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English galle, from Old English gealla (“a fretted spot on the skin”), from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô (“infirmity, swelling, lesion”).

Noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)

1. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
   • 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)

     Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall, which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.

2. (pathology, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
3. (figurative, uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
4. (countable, technical) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

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Verb

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

1. (ergative) To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
2. (transitive, figurative) To bother or trouble.
3. (transitive, figurative) To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
   • June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799

     The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.

4. (transitive, figurative) To exasperate.
5. (transitive, technical) To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

6. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To scoff; to jeer.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English galle, from Old French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).

Noun

gall (plural galls)

1. (phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
2. A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

Synonyms

• nutgall

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Translations

Verb

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

1. (transitive) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

See also

• gall dang

References

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin gallus. Compare Occitan gal, Old French jal, Spanish gallo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɡaʎ]
• Rhymes: -aʎ

Noun

gall m (plural galls)

1. rooster, cock
2. John Dory

   Synonym: gall marí

Derived terms

See also

• gallina

References

• “gall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “gall”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “gall” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɒlː]
• Hyphenation: gall
• Rhymes: -ɒlː

Adjective

gall (not comparable)

1. Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul, its people or language)

Declension

Noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural gallok)

1. Gaul (person)
2. Gaul (language)

Declension

Related terms

• Gallia

Further reading

• gall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Verb

gall (strong)

1. first-person singular past indicative of gjalla
2. third-person singular past indicative of gjalla

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːl̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡal̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic gall and Manx goal.

Noun

gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)

1. foreigner
2. (derogatory) Anglified Irish person

Derived terms

• camán gall (“chervil”)

Related terms

• Gall

Etymology 2

Noun

gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)

1. Alternative form of gallán

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “gall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡal͈]

Noun

gall m (genitive gaill, nominative plural gaill)

1. foreigner

Descendants

• Irish: gall
• Manx: goal
• Scottish Gaelic: gall

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 Gall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

gall m (genitive singular goill, plural goill)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gall

Welsh

Alternative forms

• geill (literary, third-person singular present/future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡaɬ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡaːɬ/, /ɡaɬ/
• Rhymes: -aɬ

Verb

gall

1. inflection of gallu:
   1. third-person singular present/future
   2. (literary, rare) second-person singular imperative

Mutation

References

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