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yellow bile

American  

noun

  1. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.

yellow bile British  

noun

  1. archaic one of the four bodily humours, choler

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Etymology

Origin of yellow bile

First recorded in 1880–85

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