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| chol·er [ kóllər ] |
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1. bad temper: anger or bad temper
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2. bodily fluid causing bad temper: one of the four basic fluids humors of the body according to medieval medicine, thought to make somebody whose body contained too much of it prone to anger and irritability
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| [14th century. Via French colère< Latin cholera "bile" (see cholera)] |
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