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heartburning

noun

Etymology

From heart + burning.

Definitions

  1. Secret enmity

    Secret enmity; discontent.

    • [John] Winthrop, acting with the concurrence of Wilson, whom the delicacy of his position compelled to reserve, with difficulty succeeded in parrying the blow. But the transaction did not fail to leave heart-burnings.
    • Such speeds are called for on a schedule of this sort, and the unconventional appearance was justified and necessary; but it caused many heartburnings, particularly amongst the older generation, from an aesthetic point of view.

  2. Heartburn.

    • Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]

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