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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gall and Wormwood Extremely disagreeable and annoying. "It was so much gall and wormwood to the family." - Mrs.E. Lynn Linton. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Pain | Source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood. |
Unsavoriness | Noun: unsavoriness. Adjective: amaritude; acrimony, acridity (bitterness) b; roughness. (sour); acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "GALL AND WORMWOOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | mint az epe (to be gall and wormwood), keserű (acrid, bitter, crabby, to be gall and wormwood), csupa bosszúság (to be gall and wormwood). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | allgay anday ormwoodway нечто ненавистное, постылое. (various references) | ||||||||||
Proper Noun Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-g-l-l-m-n-o-o-o-r-w-w" | |
-5 letters: Almondwood, Maldonaldo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 1. Translations: Modern 2. Anagrams 3. Bibliography |
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