choler

From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.

• enPR: kō'lər

choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)

1. Anger or irritability.
2. One of the four humours of ancient physiology, also known as yellow bile.

• wrath, rage, fury, passion, ire gall, anger, indignation, displeasure, vexation, grudge, spleen, bile or yellow bile

• cholera
• choleric

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