Noun: choler
| Singular | choler |
| Plural | cholers |
Sample Sentences
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Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
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Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
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I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
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To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
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And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule. [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:]
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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, […] [1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127:]
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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. [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
Nouns inflected like choler
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera. See: Middle English Nouns '
coler'.
Verbs referencing "choler"
German Nouns
Koller.