| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | chol·er |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k l  r, k lr |
| NOUN: | 1. Anger; irritability. 2. a. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause anger and bad temper when present in excess; yellow bile. b. Obsolete The quality and condition of being bilious. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English colre, from Old French, from Latin cholera, cholera, jaundice, from Greek kholera, from khol , bile. See ghel-2 in Appendix I.
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