Irk
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to irritate; annoy; bother
Gall
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To trouble or bother.To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.To exasperate.To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.The gall bladder.Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.A feeling of exasperation.Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.A pit caused on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.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 .
Example sentence: The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.