gall (1) — ONAD

gall1 /ɡôl, ɡɔl

▸ noun

1 bold and impudent behavior:

the bank had the gall to demand a fee.

2 the contents of the gallbladder; bile (proverbial for its bitterness).

▪ an animal's gallbladder:

the trade in animal parts such as bear galls.

▪ used to refer to something bitter or cruel:

accept life's gall without blaming somebody else.

– ORIGIN Old English gealla (denoting bile), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gal, German Galle ‘gall’, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kholē and Latin fel ‘bile’.