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bilious

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"Nauseated or irritable"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɪl.i.əs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted biilosuStarts with BEnds with S1 clues
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Definitions

  1. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

Word origin

From French bilieux, from Latin bīliōsus (“full of bile”), from bīlis (“bile”) + -ōsus (“full of”).

Used in a sentence

  • Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper, Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed To show his bilious face, go purge himself, In emulation of her vestal whiteness.
  • The business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
  • Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. You would not think it to look at him, but he is bilious—Mr. Cole is very bilious.

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