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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Galling (0.00935 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Galling.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: gall
bisul, empedu, menyakitkan hati, nyali
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: galling
galling
adj : causing irritation or annoyance;
“tapping an annoying rhythm
on his glass with his fork”;
“aircraft noise is
particularly bothersome near the airport”;
“found it
galling to have to ask permission”;
“an irritating
delay”;
“nettlesome paperwork”;
“a pesky mosquito”;
“swarms of pestering gnats”;
“a plaguey newfangled
safety catch”;
“a teasing and persistent thought
annoyed him”;
“a vexatious child”;
“it is vexing to
have to admit you are wrong” [syn:
annoying,
bothersome,
irritating,
nettlesome,
pesky,
pestering,
pestiferous,
plaguy,
plaguey,
teasing,
vexatious,
vexing]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Galling
Galling
\Gall"ing\, a.
Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. --
Gall"ing*ly, adv.
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Gall
\Gall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Galled (g[add]ld); p. pr. &
vb. n.
Galling.] [OE. gallen; cf. F. galer to scratch, rub,
gale scurf, scab, G. galle a disease in horses' feet, an
excrescence under the tongue of horses; of uncertain origin.
Cf.
Gall gallnut.]
1. 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.
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I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. --Shak.
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2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.
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They that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh. --Shak.
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3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled
by the shot of the enemy.
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In our wars against the French of old, we used to
gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance
than they could shoot their arrows. --Addison.
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