The difference between Bitterness and Gall

When used as nouns, bitterness means the quality of having a bitter taste, whereas gall means bile, especially that of an animal.


Gall is also verb with the meaning: to trouble or bother.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bitterness and Gall

  1. Bitterness as a noun:

    The quality of having a bitter taste.

  2. Bitterness as a noun:

    The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

  1. Gall as a noun (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable):

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

  2. Gall as a noun (anatomy):

    The gall bladder.

  3. Gall as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):

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

  4. Gall as a noun (countable):

    A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

  5. Gall as a noun (uncountable):

    A feeling of exasperation.

  6. Gall as a noun (uncountable):

    Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

  7. Gall as a noun (medicine, obsolete, countable):

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

  8. Gall as a noun (countable):

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

  9. Gall as a noun (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.

  1. Gall as a verb (transitive):

    To trouble or bother.

  2. Gall as a verb:

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

  3. Gall as a verb:

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

  4. Gall as a verb:

    To exasperate.

  5. Gall as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "Improper cooling and a dull milling blade on titanium can gall the surface."

  6. Gall as a verb:

    To scoff; to jeer.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Gall as a noun (countable, plant disease):

    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 .

  1. Gall as a verb:

    To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ure"