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hysteric

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8 lettersPronunciation /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted cehirstyStarts with HEnds with C0 clues
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Definitions

  1. characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

Word origin

From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).

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  • We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.
  • “Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”

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