gall1 /ɡɔːl 
/ ▸ noun [mass noun] 1 bold and impudent behaviour: the bank had the gall to demand a fee.
2 the contents of the gall bladder; bile (proverbial for its bitterness). ▪ [count noun] an animal's gall bladder: 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’.
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