Gall vs. Impudence — What's the Difference?

Galls (from Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from Greek kēkidion, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts in animals.

The quality of being offensively bold.

Outrageous insolence; effrontery

Offensively bold behavior.

Bitterness of feeling; rancor.

The quality of being impudent, not showing due respect.

Something bitter to endure

Impudent language, conduct or behavior.

See bile.

The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; lack of modesty.

A skin sore caused by friction and abrasion

An impudent statement

Exasperation; vexation.

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

The cause of such vexation.

An abnormal growth of plant tissue caused by an organism, such as an insect, mite, or bacterium, or by a wound.

To irk or exasperate; vex

To wear away or make sore by abrasion; chafe:

To become worn or sore by abrasion.

(anatomy) The gall bladder.

(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

(countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

(transitive) To bother or trouble.

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

To exasperate.

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

To scoff; to jeer.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

The gall bladder.

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Impudence; brazen assurance.

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

To scoff; to jeer.

An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

A skin sore caused by chafing

Abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Irritate or vex;