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galling 音標拼音: [g'ɔlɪŋ] a. 使煩惱的,使焦躁的,難堪的 使煩惱的,使焦躁的,難堪的 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" [ synonym: { annoying}, { bothersome}, { galling}, { irritating}, { nettlesome}, { pesky}, { pestering}, { pestiferous}, { plaguy}, { plaguey}, { teasing}, { vexatious}, { vexing}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] I am loth to gall a new- healed wound. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. [ 1913 Webster] They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Galling \ Gall" ing\, a. Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- { Gall" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 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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