gall (1) — OET

gall1

noun

1 Melanie had the gall to ask Nick for money:

impudence, insolence, impertinence, cheek, cheekiness, nerve, audacity, brazenness, effrontery, temerity, presumption, presumptuousness, brashness, shamelessness, pertness, boldness;

bad manners, rudeness, impoliteness;

informal brass neck, brass, neck, face, chutzpah, cockiness;

British, informal sauce, sauciness;

Scottish, informal snash;

North American, informal sass, sassiness, nerviness;

informal , dated hide;

British, informal , dated crust;

rare malapertness, procacity, assumption.

2 scholarly gall was poured forth upon this work:

acrimony, resentment, rancour, sourness, acerbity, asperity;

bitterness, bile, spleen, malice, spite, spitefulness, malignity, venom, vitriol, poison, malevolence, virulence, nastiness, animosity, antipathy, hostility, enmity, bad blood, ill feeling, ill will, animus;

literary choler.

gall (1) Oxford Dictionary of English