biliousnessn.
Bilious quality or condition; figurative peevishness, ill-temper.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun]
crabbingc1450
protervitya1527
peevishness1561
pettishness1603
fretfulness1615
huffiness1678
froppishness1688
petulancy1712
fractiousness1727
crossness1740
petulance1785
bile1836
huffishness1841
biliousness1856
pettedness1860
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [noun] > bilious disorders
black choleraa1398
black humoura1398
cholera1398
melancholya1398
choler adusta1400
black choler?a1425
melancholiousness1526
burnt choler1578
atrabile1594
combust choler1607
black bile1634
polycholia1799
bile1803
acholia1835
biliousness1856
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 67 The suffering from biliousness.
1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 8 Oct. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 115 I hope Stewart will cut out all this biliousness.
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