All 3 Uses of
gall
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!†
Scene 2.2
- your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not: let the gall'd jade wince; our withers are unwrung.†
Scene 3.2 *
- I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare, Collected from all simples that have virtue Under the moon, can save the thing from death This is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, It may be death.†
Scene 4.7
Definition:
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(gall as in: had the gall to) boldness and rudeness to say or do things that are not acceptable to others