bile
bile BrE [baɪl] NAmE [baɪl] noun uncountable
1. the greenish brown liquid with a bitter unpleasant taste that is produced by the ↑liver to help the body to deal with the fats we eat, and that can come into your mouth when you ↑vomit with an empty stomach
2. (formal)anger or hatred
•The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.
Word Origin:
[bile] mid 16th cent.: from French, from Latin bilis.
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