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choleric (KOHL-uhr-ik) adjective
Easily irritated or angered: hot-tempered. [Middle English colerik, from Latin cholericus, from Greek cholerikos.] "Continually throwing off cuttings from its mown prose, the novel delights in word-play. Umeed is, at times, an angry photographer, `a choleric snappeur,' who resents playing second fiddle to the brilliant spectacle, and final demise, of Ormus and Vina: `second-fiddling while Rome burns'." James Wood, Books: Review: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, The Guardian (London, UK), Apr 3, 1999. This week's theme: words ending in eric. Apologies to Eric Cartman, Kenny, and all South Park fans. Yesterday I erred in spelling Eric Cartman's name, and in suggesting he has more lives than a cat (that applies to Kenny, not Eric). Irate South Park fans as far away as Tokyo have corrected me. -Eric Shackle (eshackle@ozemail.com.au) ............................................................................ When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950) Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." Invite your friends and family to join in the quest by sending a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. It is free! http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/choleric.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/choleric.ram
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