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   chol·er

   /ˈkälər/

   noun

   • 1. (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humors, identified with bile and believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament.
   • ▪ anger or irascibility.

   Word Origin late Middle English (also denoting diarrhea): from Old French colere ‘bile, anger’, from Latin cholera ‘diarrhea’ (from Greek kholera), which in late Latin acquired the senses ‘bile or anger’, from Greek kholē ‘bile’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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