SPLENETIC


Meaning of SPLENETIC in English

/ spləˈnetɪk; NAmE / adjective

( formal ) often bad-tempered and angry

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WORD ORIGIN

late Middle English (as a noun denoting a person with a diseased spleen): from late Latin spleneticus , from Greek splēn .

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