Bilious vs Splenetic - What's the difference?
bilious | splenetic |
Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured.
Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
Irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
* Macaulay
bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry
* 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
* 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
(biology) relating to the spleen
* 1879, Sir Samuel White Baker, Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879
As adjectives the difference between bilious and splenetic
is that bilious is suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured while splenetic is bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.As a noun splenetic is
(archaic) a person affected with spleen.bilious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a bilious old nabob
splenetic
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Alternative forms
* splenetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / ... / More peevish, cross, and splenetick , / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
- 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.
- 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.
