单词 | fellifluous |
释义 | fellifluousadj. Now rare. Flowing with bile; (figurative) bitter, rancorous. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [adjective] bitter971 festereda1398 sourc1450 rancorous1566 infestered1570 amarulent1583 stomachous1590 enfested1591 fellifluous1656 vitriolic1841 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > gall or bile > [adjective] bilious?1541 fellifluous1656 felleous1657 bilary1681 biliose1712 biliary1731 fellic acid1842 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fellifluous, flowing of the Gall. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Fellifluous, flowing with gall. 1741 Querists, Pt. III 140 Would not he do well to consider, whether or no his Language, in this, be not more fellifluous than mellifluous? 1849 R. Bulwer-Lytton Peer's Daughters I. 223 The latter's poor, feeble, halting, vacillating, thread-bare soul, lacerated in endless agonies against his mother's foul treachery and fellifluous deceit. 1924 B. Hecht Kingdom of Evil 48 Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras. 2007 D. Abse Presence 150 Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1656 |
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