Splenish

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Obsolete form of spleenish..

Example Sentences

O lawleſſe paunch the cauſe of much deſpight, / Through raunging of a curriſh appetite, / When ſplenish morſels cram the gaping Maw, / Withouten diets care, or trencher-law, / Tho neuer haue I Salerne rimes profeſt / To be ſome Ladies trencher-criticke gueſt; […]

But here your selves you must engage Somewhat to cool your splenish Rage,

There is also a chancellor, —no, I mistake,— a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping spoffish limner; a twer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker's mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.

His 'kinsmanly care' advanced him neither socially nor financially. He complained of being 'lugged and worried' like a baited bear and exposed to 'splenish censure'.

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• more splenish
• most splenish

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