Both Uses of
bilious
in
David Copperfield
- Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Not half so bilious.'†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(bilious) suffering indigestion
or:
irritable or bad-tempered
or:
ugly or disgusting -- especially of a shade of green
or:
relating to bile (a green digestive fluid)