Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bilious
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Bilious
bilious
1. If someone describes the appearance of something as bilious, they mean that they think it looks unpleasant and rather disgusting. (WRITTEN) ...a bilious shade of green. ADJ: usu ADJ n c darkgreen]disapproval 2. If you feel bilious, you feel sick and have a headache. She is suffering a bilious attack. ADJ 3. Bilious is sometimes used to describe the feelings or behaviour of someone who is extremely angry or bad-tempered. (WRITTEN) His speech was a bilious, rancorous attack on young people. ADJ: usu ADJ n
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1.
adjective Etymology: Middle French bilieux, from Latin biliosus, from bilis Date: 1541 1. a. of or relating to bile b. marked by or suffering from liver dysfunction and especially excessive secretion of bile c. appearing as if affected by a ~ disorder 2. of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition 3. sickeningly unpleasant with clapboards painted red and ~ yellow — Sinclair Lewis • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 affected by a disorder of the bile. 2 bad-tempered. Derivatives biliously adv. biliousness n. Etymology: L biliosus f. bilis bile ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. уст. желчный 2. мед. страдающий от разлития желчи bilious attack —- приступ разлития желчи bilious patient —- больной, страдающий разлитием желчи 3. раздражительный, мрачный 4. отвратительный, скверный bilious weather —- разг. отвратная погода ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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5.
~ adj 1 feeling sick (Fatty foods make some people bilious.) 2 bad-tempered - biliousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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