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bile.

A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

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Meaning & usage

noun/baɪl//ˈbaɪ.əl/
  1. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

    uncountable · usually
  2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

    uncountable · usually
  3. Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

    uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).

noun/baɪl//ˈbaɪ.əl/
  1. A boil (kind of swelling).

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

verb/baɪl//ˈbaɪ.əl/
  1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

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Where this word comes from

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

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