SPLEEN


Meaning of SPLEEN in English

n.1 an abdominal organ involved in maintaining the proper condition of blood in most vertebrates.

2 lowness of spirits; moroseness, ill temper, spite (from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of such feelings) (a fit of spleen; vented their spleen).

Derivatives:

spleenful adj. spleeny adj.

Etymology: ME f. OF esplen f. L splen f. Gk splen

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.