spleen
To annoy or irritateTo annoy or irritate.
» We had to remove your spleen.
Wir mussten Ihre Milz entfernen.
Нам пришлось удалить вашу селезёнку.
Meaning
5 sensesTo annoy or irritate.
(ambitransitive)To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
To excise or remove.
(obsolete, transitive)To dislike.
Examples
6 sentencesWe had to remove your spleen.
ruНам пришлось удалить вашу селезёнку. — Wezel
deWir mussten Ihre Milz entfernen. — Esperantostern
The bookkeeper lost his spleen in a horrible car wreck.
It’s a way I have of driving off the spleen.
deSo vertreibe ich meinen Missmut. — Yorwba
This fellow is up to something. I can feel it in my spleen.
ruЭтот тип что-то задумывает. Я это нутром чую. — Wezel
deDieser Kerl hat etwas vor. Ich kann es in meiner Milz fühlen. — marcelostockle
Surgeons are using this technique to remove diseased gall bladders and spleens, to perform hysterectomies and to repair hernias and colons.
Origin
From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, espleFrom Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displaced the native English term milt.
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Forms
spleens, spleening, spleened, spleenedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle