Galled

Definition: Galled

Galled

Adjective

1. Painful from having the skin abraded.

Date "galled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonym: Galled

Synonym: chafed (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Boasting	Phrase: " let the galled jade wince "; facta non verba.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Galled

English words defined with "galled": Spurgall ♦ To serve the cable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "galled": CURE A-SE ♦ Withers of a Horse. (references)

"Galled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "Galled" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	68.75%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past participle)	31.25%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expression using "galled": galled fuel. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "galled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�伤 (Chafed, Chafing, galling). (various references)

German		gereizt (edgy, excited, frayed, hackles up, irascible, irritable, irritably, irritated, narky, peevish, petulant, petulantly, provoked, ratty, ruffled, short tempered, supercharged, teased, testily, testy, tetchy, touchy), gäergert. (various references)

Greek		πικραμένος. (various references)

Hungarian		kocsonyásított üzemanyag (galled fuel). (various references)

Norwegian		hudløs. (various references)

Pig Latin		alledgay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "galled": begalled, spurgalled, ungalled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Galled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alled, galad, Galeb, galec, galed, Galende, galet, galex, gallard, gallei, gallen, galler, Galles, gallet, Gallix, gallot, Gallyer, Galwex, gellen, geller, gillead, gillied, glavlit, golle, Golledge, gullea. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-l"
	-1 letter: glade, ladle, legal.
	-2 letters: aged, dale, deal, dell, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gall, geld, glad, gled, lade, lead, leal.
	-3 letters: age, ale, all, dag, dal, del, eld, ell, gad, gae, gal, ged, gel, lad, lag, lea, led, leg.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, al, de, ed, el, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-l"
	+1 letter: alleged, gallied, ullaged.
	+2 letters: begalled, collaged, diallage, gabelled, galleted, galloped, gallused, gavelled, gladlier, glandule, grillade, pillaged, tallaged, ungalled.
	+3 letters: allegedly, delegable, diallages, dodgeball, gallanted, galleried, gallopade, gambolled, gimballed, gladliest, glandless, glandules, gravelled, grillades, legalised, legalized, medalling, pedalling, signalled.
	+4 letters: challenged, colligated, dodgeballs, gallicized, gallopades, gladsomely, globalised, globalized, goldenseal, highballed, legislated, oldfangled, pleadingly, redialling, seguidilla, spurgalled.
	+5 letters: allegorised, allegorized, allografted, ballyragged, bullyragged, candlelight, chandelling, decollating, decolletage, flagellated, gallbladder, gallivanted, gladioluses, goldenseals, handselling, ideological, illegalized, lallygagged, legendarily, lollygagged, medicolegal, pedological, regardfully, seguidillas.
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