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单词 fellifluous
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fellifluousadj.

Brit. /fᵻˈlɪfluːəs/, U.S. /fəˈlɪfluəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin fellifluus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin fellifluus (5th cent.; < classical Latin fel gall (see fell n.4) + fluere to flow: see fluent adj.) + -ous suffix.Compare the following earlier example of fellifluously:1624 J. Vicars in tr. G. Goodwin Babels Balm sig. A 4 Then, seeke, sucke, what Thou thinkst best, And, to Honey-Combes digest, What thou hast so well collected, And Fellifluously confected.
Now rare.
Flowing with bile; (figurative) bitter, rancorous.
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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).
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