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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Galling \Gall"ing\, adjective Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- {Gall"ing*ly}, adverb
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gall \Gall\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
galling
adjective: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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