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choler

noun

Etymology

From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.

  1. derived from colere
  2. inherited from coler — “yellow bile”

Definitions

  1. Anger or irritability.

    • Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie, Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge, I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes, And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.
    • Hutchins reflected a moment. All the choler and restlessness had melted out of the man's face. He was again the excellent artisan, slow but capable and self-reliant.

  2. Synonym of yellow bile.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for choler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA