diarrhea
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English diaria, from Middle French diarrie (French diarrhée), from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Ancient Greek διάρροια, from διά ("through") + ῥέω ("flow").
Displaced native Old English ūtsiht (literally “straining out”).
Pronunciation- (British) IPA: /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/
diarrhea (American spelling, Canadian spelling)
- A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.
- 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?
- 2009, Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, page 47:
- I looked and saw that she and her hammock were 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, bubble guts
- galactorrhea/galactorrhoea
- gonorrhea/gonorrhoea
- logorrhea/logorrhoea
- pyorrhea/pyorrhoea
- rheology
- diarrheal
- diarrheic
- antidiarrheal
- French: diarrhée, foire
- German: Durchfall, (informal) Dünnschiss, Diarrhö, Diarrhoe
- Italian: diarrea
- Portuguese: diarreia
- Russian: поно́с
- Spanish: diarrea, colitis, cagadera, (El Salvador) churria, currutaca, (Chile) churretera
- French: chiasse, diarrhée
- Italian: squacquera, scacazzata
- Portuguese: diarreia
- Russian: жидкий стул
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