Meaning of fellifluous | Babel Free

Definitions

Flowing with bile or gall.

uncommon

Examples

“Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own⟳ reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own⟳ presumptuous ignorance […]”

“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.’”

“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?”

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