gall
impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
Other meanings
Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ġealla".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gall” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.