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choler

chol·er [ kóllər ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. bad temper: anger or bad temper ( literary or archaic )

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

[14th century. Via French colère< Latin cholera "bile" (see cholera)]
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