Both Uses of
bilious
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
- A beautiful girl once told me of a recurring nightmare in which she lay in the center of a large dark room and felt her face expand until it filled the whole room, becoming a formless mass while her eyes ran in bilious jelly up the chimney.†
Chpt Prol.
- If that happened, I might forget to dodge some bright morning and some cluck would run me down with an orange and yellow street car, or a bilious bus!†
Chpt Prol. *
Definition:
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)
or:
irritable or bad-tempered
or:
ugly or disgusting -- especially of a shade of green
or:
relating to bile (a green digestive fluid)