different between garish vs bilious

English

Etymology

Of unknown origin, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *g?ow-rós, from *g?ew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????/

Adjective

garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)

1. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. [from 1540s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gaudy

Derived terms

• garishly
• garishness

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Anagrams

• Harigs, girahs, girsha

English

Etymology

From French bilieux, from Latin b?li?sus (“full of bile”), from b?lis (“bile”) + -?sus (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?l.j?s/, /?b?l.i.?s/

Adjective

bilious (comparative more bilious, superlative most bilious)

1. Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
2. Resembling bile, especially in color.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
     Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
     To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
     In emulation of her vestal whiteness.

   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Chapter III:

     The business-center of Schoenstrom took up one side of one block, facing the railroad. It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.

   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, `Prologue:

     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.

3. Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
4. Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
   • 1934 George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows, pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked in La Samaritaine […] "

Related terms

• atrabilious (full of black bile)
• bile

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