splenetic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /spləˈnɛtɪk/
splenetic
- Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
- In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities.
- 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- (biology) Related to the spleen.
- 1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
- I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.
- 1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
- French: splénétique
- Spanish: irritable
splenetic (plural splenetics)
- (archaic) A person affected with spleen.
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