Usually means: Boldness coupled with impudent disrespect.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word gall:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gall: Merriam-Webster
  2. gall, gall, gall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gall, gall, gall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gall, gall: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gall: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gall, gall: Wordnik
  7. gall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gall, gall: Wiktionary
  9. gall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gall: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gall: Dictionary.com
  13. gall (1), gall (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gall (Native American leader), Gall (disambiguation), Gall (surname), Gall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gall: Rhymezone
  19. gall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gall: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gall, gall: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gall: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gall-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gall (botany), gall: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gall (botany), gall: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. gall: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Gall (botany), gall: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. GALL: Acronym Finder
  3. gall: Idioms
  4. gall: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gall: Easton Bible
  2. Gall: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. GALL: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gall: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gall: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See galled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
noun:  (anatomy, archaic, countable) A gallbladder.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
noun:  (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
noun:  (pathology, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
noun:  (figurative, uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (ergative) To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To bother or trouble.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exasperate.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To scoff; to jeer.
noun:  (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).
noun:  A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb:  (transitive) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
noun:  A surname.

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