Talk:bilious

Hello, in french
we have a lot of equivalents for « bilious », (which is astounding, since from Elyseum down to Tartarus you'll never find a bilious frenchman or woman in Paris or around ...)

-"avoir le teint bilieux" : to have a bilious complexion
 * from the latin, we have, for example :

- "cet homme n'est pas pas bileux" (without the i) : that man doesn't give a damn, shrugs every problem away

- "se faire opérer d'un calcul biliaire" : to have a gall-bladder stone taken out

- "attention, c'est un atrabilaire" (without the i) : take care, he is a bilious one...


 * from the greek : colérique, coléreux etc...


 * from the old french : hutin (though not much used since Louis the Xth)


 * from our argot (slang) : "pète-sec" (not a dry-farter, but a curt-snapper), "soupe-au-lait" (milk-soup), "râleur" (snarler)


 * etc, etc...

T.y. Arapaima 14:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)