CHOLER


Meaning of CHOLER in English

n. 1 hist. one of the four humours, bile. 2 poet. or archaic anger, irascibility.

[ ME f. OF colere bile, anger f. L cholera f. Gk kholera diarrhoea, in LL = bile, anger, f. Gk khole bile ]

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