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bil·ious·ly, adverb
bil·ious·ness, noun
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3. grumpy, crabby, cross, grouchy, dyspeptic.
3. grumpy, crabby, cross, grouchy, dyspeptic.
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- Strange faces everywhere and a bustling, disputatious tone about it, bilious folk.
- The essay continued in the same rather bilious vein for.
- But bilious outbursts and business success often go hand in hand.
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bilious
1540s, "pertaining to bile, biliary," from Fr. bilieux, from L. biliosus, from bilis (see bile). Meaning "wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered" (as people afflicted with an excess of bile were believed to be) is attested from 1560s. This is the main modern sense in English and
EXPAND French; the more literal meaning being taken up by biliary.
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bilious bil·ious (bĭl'yəs)
adj.
Of, relating to, or containing bile; biliary.
Characterized by an excess secretion of bile.
Relating to, characterized by, or experiencing gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gallbladder.
bil'ious·ness n.
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