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Atrabilious
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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atrabilious
1650s, from L. atra bilis, translating Gk. melankholia "black bile" (see melancholy; also cf. bile). Atra is fem. of ater "black, dark," perhaps related to root of atrocity.
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