Tuesday 10 February 2015

Chlorocholy

Chlorocholy: noun. The feeling of jealousy mixed with envy, as well as remorse. Similarly to the word 'melancholy', this word comes from what was considered by the Ancient Greeks to be one of the four humours of the human body. It is derived from the Greek for 'yellow bile', and this is very accurate, because that is what builds up in the mouths of those people who are confronted with chlorocholy from other people.

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