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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. causing irritation or annoyance;
- Example: "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"
- Example: "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"
- Example: "found it galling to have to ask permission"
- Example: "an irritating delay"
- Example: "nettlesome paperwork"
- Example: "a pesky mosquito"
- Example: "swarms of pestering gnats"
- Example: "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"
- Example: "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"
- Example: "a vexatious child"
- Example: "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
[syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Galling \Gall"ing\, a.
   Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. --
   Gall"ing*ly, adv.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

galling
    adj 1: 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, galling,
           irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering,
           pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
           vexatious, vexing]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "galling":
   ablative, abradant, abrasive, afflictive, aggravating, annoying,
   attritive, bothering, bothersome, chafing, distasteful, disturbing,
   erosive, exasperating, fretting, gnawing, grating, grievous,
   grinding, harassing, importunate, importune, irking, irksome,
   irritant, irritating, irritative, painful, pesky, pestering,
   pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey,
   plaguing, provoking, rasping, scratchy, stinging, teasing,
   tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, unpalatable,
   vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying