Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/
diarrhea
- A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very fluid or watery bowel movements.
- (chiefly, US, UK) The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements.
- 2008, Danna Korn and Connie Sarros, Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies, Chapter 1 ↗:
- My Pampers bill is higher than your paycheck, my hands are raw from washing them every six minutes, and I do eight loads of laundry a day because everything we own is covered in diarrhea, and you want me to "plug him up" and wait another three weeks?
- 2014, L. A. Knight, Dog Training the American Male, 221 ↗:
- Why was she covered in diarrhea?
- 2008, Danna Korn and Connie Sarros, Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies, Chapter 1 ↗:
- (medical condition) the runs, the shits, the squirts (US), the trots, the squits (both UK), the skitters (Scottish and Northern English) (all slang)
- See also Thesaurus:diarrhea
- French: diarrhée, foire
- German: Durchfall, (informal) Dünnschiss, Diarrhö, Diarrhoe
- Italian: diarrea
- Portuguese: diarreia
- Russian: поно́с
- Spanish: diarrea, colitis
- French: chiasse
- Russian: жидкий стул
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