gall (2) — OAT

gall2

noun

1 this was a gall that she frequently had to endure:

irritation, irritant, annoyance, vexation, pest, nuisance, provocation, bother, torment, plague, source of vexation, source of irritation, source of annoyance, thorn in one's side/flesh;

informal aggravation, peeve, pain, pain in one's neck, bind, bore, headache, hassle;

Scottish, informal nyaff, skelf;

North American, informal pain in the butt, nudnik, burr under someone's saddle;

Australian, New Zealand, informal nark.

2 a bay horse with a gall on its side:

sore, ulcer, ulceration, canker;

abrasion, scrape, scratch, graze, chafe.

verb

1 it galled him to have to sit impotently in silence:

irritate, annoy, vex, make angry, make cross, anger, exasperate, irk, pique, put out, displease, get/put someone's back up, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles;

infuriate, madden, drive to distraction, goad, provoke;

informal aggravate, peeve, hassle, miff, rile, nettle, needle, get, get to, bug, hack off, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get someone's goat, rattle someone's cage, get someone's dander up, drive mad/crazy, drive around the bend, drive up the wall, make someone see red;

British, informal wind up, nark, get across, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, drive round the twist, get up someone's nose, put someone's nose out of joint;

North American, informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel;

New Zealand, informal rark;

informal , dated give someone the pip;

rare exacerbate, hump, rasp.

2 the straps galled their shoulders:

chafe, abrade, rub (against), rub painfully, rub raw, scrape, graze, skin, scratch, rasp, bark, fret;

rare excoriate.