Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CHOLERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CHOLER coler (“yellow bile”), from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#CHOLER colere (“bile, anger”), from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CHOLER cholera (“bilious disease”)Category:English undefined derivations#CHOLER, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#CHOLER χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)Category:English undefined derivations#CHOLER. Doublet of choleraCategory:English doublets#CHOLER.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kǒ'lər

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/əʊlə(ɹ)#CHOLERCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊlə(ɹ)/2 syllables#CHOLER

Noun

choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)Category:English lemmas#CHOLERCategory:English nouns#CHOLERCategory:English uncountable nouns#CHOLERCategory:English countable nouns#CHOLERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHOLERCategory:Pages with entries#CHOLERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CHOLER

1. Anger or irritability.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

     Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
     Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
     I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
     To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
     And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.

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   • 1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127:

     This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]

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   • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:

     Hutchins reflected a moment. All the choler and restlessness had melted out of the man's face. He was again the excellent artisan, slow but capable and self-reliant.

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2. (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#CHOLER, medicineCategory:en:Medicine#CHOLER) Synonym of yellow bile.

Anagrams

• orchel