choler

Meaning

  1. (uncountable, usually) Anger or irritability.
  2. (historical, uncountable, usually) Synonym of yellow bile.

Etymology

In summary

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.

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