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gall (1)

gall [ gawl ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. audacity: impudent boldness
And then he had the gall to tell us to leave!

2. bitter feeling: a feeling of bitterness or resentment ( literary )

3. biology  ( archaic )
Same as  bile (sense 1)


[12th century. < Old Norse gall "bile" < Germanic, "yellow"]
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