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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bilious \Bil"ious\ (b[i^]l"y[u^]s), adjective [L. biliosus, fr. bilis bile.]
1. Of or pertaining to the bile.
2. Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.
3. Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. ''A bilious old nabob.'' --Macaulay.
{Bilious temperament}. See {Temperament}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bilious
adjective
1: relating to or containing bile [syn: {biliary}]
2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: {liverish}, {livery}]
3: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: {atrabilious}, {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "bilious": allergic, anemic, angry, apoplectic, arthritic, bad-tempered, bitter, cancerous, chlorotic, choleric, colicky, consumptive, cross, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, embittered, encephalitic, epileptic, ill-natured, ill-tempered, jaundiced, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, palsied, paralytic, peevish, petulant, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, sour, sour-tempered, soured, tabetic, tabid, testy, tetchy, tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, vinegarish, wrathful
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