Dutch vs gall

Dutch

verb
  • To treat cocoa beans or powder with an alkali solution to darken the color and lessen the bitterness of the flavor. 

noun
  • Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch). 

  • The Pennsylvania Dutch people. 

  • The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands. 

name
  • The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium); Netherlandic. 

  • A male given name, more often given as a nickname to someone of Dutch or German ancestry than as an official given name 

adj
  • Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch). 

  • Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language. 

gall

verb
  • To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing. 

  • To scoff; to jeer. 

  • To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. 

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

  • To exasperate. 

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

  • To bother or trouble. 

noun
  • Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah. 

  • A feeling of exasperation. 

  • The gall bladder. 

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

  • A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore. 

  • 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. 

  • A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall. 

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