Clues for the word "GALL"
We've had 63 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 216 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on April 02, 2026.
Definition of gall
- n. - 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.
- n. - The gall bladder.
- n. - Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.
- n. - Impudence; brazen assurance.
- n. - 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.
- v. t. - To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
- v. t. - To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.
- v. i. - To scoff; to jeer.
- n. - A wound in the skin made by rubbing.
Referring Clues
- Effrontery
- More than irk
- Chutzpah
- Brass
- Crust
- Rub the wrong way
- Annoy no end
- Nerve
- Boldness to a fault
- It may be unmitigated
- Impudence
- Audacity
- ___ bladder
- Vex
- Temerity
- Chutzpa
- Irritate greatly
- Presumptuousness
- Unmitigated stuff
- Chutzpah, in the extreme
- Brazen boldness
- Cheek
- Some nerve!
- Unmitigated ___
- Rancor
- Sass
- Impudent boldness
- Unmitigated nerve
- Nerve, found in eight of the Across answers
- Rancour, bitterness
- Brazenness
- Irritate big-time
- Insolence
- Really steam
- Real nerve
- Chutzpah in the extreme
- Exasperate
- Irk a lot
- Presumption
- Sioux chief
- Irk big time
- Impertinence
- Irk big-time
- "Unmitigated" nerve
- Irk
- Impudence - annoy
- Ill-will - bile
- Something bitter that's good for everybody
- Irritate - presumption
- Colossal nerve
- Bitterness
- Galleons, half visible, animosity
- "The unmitigated ___!"
- Chafe
- Sometimes it's unmitigated
- A certain bitterness is good for everybody
- Impudence, informally
- Brazen behavior
- Western girl left in bitterness
- Nerve or annoy
- Cheek or nerve
- Armada ship
- The cheek, bringing a c-convict back!
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2026
- Daily American - March 30, 2026
- Daily American - February 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 23, 2025
- Daily American - June 02, 2025
- New York Times - June 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 30, 2025
- New York Times - May 20, 2025
- New York Times - January 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 17, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 08, 2024
- Family Time - September 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - September 01, 2024
- LA Times - August 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 25, 2024
- New York Times - August 11, 2024
- Daily American - August 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 18, 2024
- Mirror Mini - July 09, 2024
- Daily American - March 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 25, 2024
- Daily American - February 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2023
- Family Time - December 03, 2023
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