Fellifluous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fellifluous is an adjective meaning (uncommon) Flowing with bile or gall.
Meaning
(uncommon) Flowing with bile or gall.
Example Sentences
Behind a counter two young women, both evidently Asian, served a queue including a tipsy fellifluous Irishman.
What could ever be termed defeatist or pessimistic – what could ever be called fellifluous – about such ideas?
Its claws scratch at the back of his eyeballs and cause him to see visions, to shriek with fevers, to choke in the embrace of fetid and fellifluous chimeras […]
The disease of cholera, according to some, derives its name from the flow of bile that takes place from mouth and bowels, cholera being, so to speak, ‘the fellifluous disease.’
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include largifluous, ignifluous, flameful, burpy, ebullient, flagacious.
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