biliousadj.
/ˈbɪlɪəs/, U.S. /ˈbɪliəs/, /ˈbɪljəs/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > gall or bile > [adjective]
bilious?1541
fellifluous1656
felleous1657
bilary1681
biliose1712
biliary1731
fellic acid1842
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Gijv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Cankers commeth of bylyous excrementes.
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 133 Caused by cholerick or bilious matter.
1797 J. Downing Treat. Disorders Horned Cattle 35 This medicine..cleanses the bilious passages.
2. Of diseases and temperament: Affected by, or arising from, too great a secretion of bile, or from bilious derangement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered secretion > [adjective] > bilious disorders
cholerica1398
melancholianta1400
gallish1551
melancholical1559
melancholish1562
cholerical1569
cholerous1583
atrabilar1597
melancholic1598
atrabilaric1620
melancholeric1650
atrabilious1651
bilious1651
atrabilary1676
atrabilarian1678
atrabilous1681
atrabilarious1684
atrabiliary1725
biliary1837
acholic1866
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 74 Bilious diseases.
1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 36 His natural habit, be it bilious, melancholy, or phlegmatick.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 245 An excellent Drink in bilious Fevers.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. vi. 226 Rise in the morning as bilious as a Bengal general.
1842 C. Dickens Let. 22 Mar. (1974) III. 162 I am careful to drink hardly anything, and not to smoke at all. I have recourse to my medicine chest whenever I feel at all bilious.
3. Choleric, wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)
hotOE
wooda1250
hastivec1300
irous1303
hastya1350
angrya1387
melancholiousa1393
quicka1400
irefulc1400
melancholyc1450
turnec1480
iracundiousa1492
passionatea1500
fumish1523
irascible1530
wrothful1535
fierya1540
warm1547
choleric1556
hot at hand1558
waspish1566
incensive1570
bilious1571
splenative1593
hot-livered1599
short1599
spitfire1600
warm-tempered1605
temperless1614
sulphurous1616
angryable1662
huffy1680
hastish1749
peppery1778
quick-tempered1792
inflammable1800
hair-triggered1806
gingery1807
spunky1809
iracund1821
irascid1823
wrathy1828
frenzy1859
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
tempersome1875
exacerbescent1889
tempery1905
lightningy1906
temperish1925
short-fused1979
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [adjective]
stour1303
thwarta1325
elvishc1386
wrawc1386
wrawfulc1386
crabbeda1400
crousea1400
cursedc1400
doggeda1425
currishc1460
disagreeable1474
dour1488
thrawn1488
terne?1507
apirsmarta1522
crustyc1570
incommodious1570
bilious1571
mischievous-stomached1577
thrawn-faced1578
thrawn-mowit1578
wearisha1586
shrewish1596
rhubarbative1600
crabbish1606
ill-tempereda1616
cur-like1627
thrawn-faceda1628
terned1638
cross1639
splenial1641
frumpish1647
wry1649
bad-tempered1671
hot-tempered1673
sidy1673
ugly1687
ornery1692
cankerya1699
ramgunshoch1721
cantankerousc1736
frumpy1746
unhappy1756
grumpy1778
crabby1791
grumpish1797
thraw-gabbit18..
snarlish1813
cranky1821
stuntya1825
ill-natured1825
nattery1825
rantankerous1832
foul-tempered1835
cacochymical1836
as cross as two sticks1842
grumphy1846
knappy1855
carnaptious1858
cussed1858
three-cornered1863
snotty1870
sniffy1871
snorty1893
grouchy1895
scratchy1925
tight1950
stroppy1951
snitty1978
arsey1989
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 52 A great note of temperancie is it not to waxe or bilius or angrie for the injurie that is done us.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Worc. 176 Here Bilious Bale lets fly without fear.
1866 Sat. Rev. 20 Jan. 76/1 The outpouring of a bilious cynicism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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