different between gall vs brass

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/
• (cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: Gaul

Etymology 1

From Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ?ealla, from Proto-Germanic *gall?. Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek ???? (khol?). Also remotely related with yellow.

Noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)

1. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
2. (anatomy) The gall bladder.

   • He shall flee from the iron weapon and the bow of steel shall strike him through. It is drawn and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

   • Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

   • 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry

     The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XIV:

     {...} I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall {...}

4. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter V

     It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting on dress and needle-work; and still more, to hear him address the British fair, the fairest of the fair, as if they had only feelings.

5. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
   • 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, Chapter 6

     “Durn ye!” he cried. “I’ll lam ye! Get offen here. I knows ye. Yer one o’ that gang o’ bums that come here last night, an’ now you got the gall to come back beggin’ for food, eh? I’ll lam ye!” and he raised the gun to his shoulder.

6. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

     And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness, / And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;

7. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
   • 1989 National Ag Safety Database (Centers for Disease Control)

     Riding a horse with bruised or broken skin can cause a gall, which frequently results in the white saddle marks seen on the withers and backs of some horses.

8. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Derived terms

• gallbladder
• gallstone

Translations

Verb

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

1. (transitive) To bother or trouble.
2. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
   • June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799

     The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.

3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

   • …he went awkwardly in these clothes at first: wearing the drawers was very awkward to him, and the sleeves of the waistcoat galled his shoulders and the inside of his arms; but a little easing them where he complained they hurt him, and using himself to them, he took to them at length very well.

4. To exasperate.
   • 1979, Mark Bowden, “Captivity Pageant”, The Atlantic, Volume 296, No. 5, pp. 92-97, December, 1979

     Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.

5. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

6. To scoff; to jeer.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).

Noun

gall (plural galls)

1. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
   • 1974, Philip P. Wiener (ed.), Dictionary of the History of Ideas

     Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls—there must be spontaneous generation. Bit by bit the evidence grew against such views. In 1670 Jan Swammerdam, painstaking student of the insect’s life cycle, suggested that the grubs in galls were enclosed in them for the sake of nourishment and must come from insects that had inserted their semen or their eggs into the plants.

2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
   • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, Chapter 21

     But first for your Line. First note, that you are to take care that your hair be round and clear, and free from galls, or scabs, or frets: for a well- chosen, even, clear, round hair, of a kind of glass-colour, will prove as strong as three uneven scabby hairs that are ill-chosen, and full of galls or unevenness. You shall seldom find a black hair but it is round, but many white are flat and uneven; therefore, if you get a lock of right, round, clear, glass-colour hair, make much of it.

Synonyms

• nutgall

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

1. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

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See also

Gall (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan gal), from Latin gallus (compare Spanish gallo, Portuguese galo).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

gall m (plural galls)

1. rooster, cock

Derived terms

See also

• gallina

Further reading

• “gall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gall
• Rhymes: -?l?

Adjective

gall (not comparable)

1. Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul, its people or language)

Declension

Noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural gallok)

1. Gaul (person)
2. Gaul (language)

Declension

Related terms

• Gallia

Further reading

• gall in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Verb

gall (strong)

1. first-person singular past indicative of gjalla
2. third-person singular past indicative of gjalla

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /???l??/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gall (“foreigner”), from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). Related to Scottish Gaelic Gall (“foreigner”).

Noun

gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)

1. foreigner
2. (derogatory) Anglified Irish person

Derived terms

• camán gall (“chervil”)

Related terms

• Gall

Etymology 2

Noun

gall m (genitive singular gaill, nominative plural gaill)

1. Alternative form of gallán

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gall" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “gall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

gall m (genitive singular goill, plural goill)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gall

Welsh

Alternative forms

• geill (literary, third-person singular present/future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?a?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?a??/, /?a?/

Verb

gall

1. third-person singular present/future of gallu
2. (literary, rare) second-person singular imperative of gallu

Mutation

References

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?æs/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs

Etymology 1

From Middle English bras, bres, from Old English bræs (“brass, bronze”), origin uncertain. Perhaps representing a backformation from Proto-Germanic *brasnaz (“brazen”), from or related to *bras? (“fire, pyre”). Compare Old Norse and Icelandic bras (“solder”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden in the fire”), Swedish brasa (“a small made fire”), Danish brase (“to fry”); French braser ("to solder"; > English braise) from the same Germanic root. Compare also Middle Dutch braspenninc ("a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch braspenning), Old Frisian bress (“copper”), Middle Low German bras (“metal, ore”).

In the military sense an ellipsis of the brass hats.

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
   1. A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
   2. Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
2. (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
3. Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
4. (uncountable) The colour of brass.

6. (military, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymically) High-ranking officers.

7. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.

8. (slang, dated) Money.
9. Inferior composition.

Derived terms

References

• “brass”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• “brass, noun.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Translations

Adjective

brass (comparative more brass, superlative most brass)

1. Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
2. Of the colour of brass.
3. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.
   • 1869, Calendar of State Papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles I, 1637-1638, edited by John Bruce, page 147:

     At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.

   • 1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95, alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent:

     Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.

   • 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT, rec.collecting.coins:

     After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.

   • 2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB, alt.support.anxiety-panic:

     Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]

4. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
   • 1888, Mr. & Mrs. Bancroft on and off the stage: written by themselves, volume 1, page 90:

     Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.

   • 1900, The Training of Seamen, published in The Saturday Review, 3 November 1900, volume 90, number 2349, page 556:

     I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]

   • 1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168:

     Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.

   • 1929, Philippine Magazine, volume 6, page 27

     The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very brass band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes.

5. Of inferior composition.

Translations

Verb

brass (third-person singular simple present brasses, present participle brassing, simple past and past participle brassed)

1. (transitive) To coat with brass.

Derived terms

• brass up

Translations

Related terms

• braze
• brazen
• brazier

Etymology 2

By ellipsis from "brass nail," in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen").

Noun

brass (usually uncountable, plural brasses)

1. (countable, slang) A brass nail; a prostitute.
   • 1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury 2011, p. 2:

     Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.

Adjective

brass

1. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.

See also

• althorn
• chalcography
• cornet
• euphonium
• flugelhorn
• French horn
• mellophone
• Muntz metal
• saxhorn
• sousaphone
• trombone
• trumpet
• tuba
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Brass”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “brass”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pras?/
• Rhymes: -as?

Noun

brass n (genitive singular brass, no plural)

1. (music, slang) brass

Declension