splenetic

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But certain people always grow splenetic-- Why, goodness knows--at everything pathetic, And scoff it down.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the spleen.
  2. adjective Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability.
  3. noun A person regarded as irritable.

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  • But I begin to grow splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • “John Adams has neither judgment, firmness of mind, nor respectability of deportment to fill the chair of such an assembly,” scoffed the ever-splenetic William Maclay. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • But you see I am grown downright splenetic, and perhaps the fit may continue till I receive an answer to this. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • He had no end of names--romantic, splenetic, of opprobrium, or outright endearment--to suit, I imagine, Lakalatcha's varying moods. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • But certain people always grow splenetic-- Why, goodness knows--at everything pathetic, And scoff it down. —  Love's Comedy
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  1. Late Latin splēnēticus, from Latin splēn, spleen; see spleen.

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  1. from Middle English splenetyk, from Old French splenetique, French splénétique = Spanish esplenético = Italian splenetico, from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen, spleen: see spleen.
 

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