galling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: galling	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for galling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gall \Gall\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Galled}; 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. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. --Shak. 2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. --Shak. 3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Galling \Gall"ing\, a. Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- {Gall"ing*ly}, adv.