Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Citations:spleen. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Citations:spleen, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Citations:spleen in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Citations:spleen you have here. The definition of the word
Citations:spleen will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Citations:spleen, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Bad mood
1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: W Lewis ; and sold by W Taylor , T Osborn , and J Graves , →OCLC:In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
1843, “A Voice from Trinidad”, in Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 465:Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.
1929, Owen Lattimore, “The Black Gobi”, in The Desert Road To Turkestan, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 227:The name I like best, however, I heard uttered by the Eldest Son of the House of Chou, who in a moment of spleen referred to his colleague of the House of Liang as hsiao chu-tan, the Little Pig’s Egg.
(Can we date this quote?), New York Supreme Court, page 9:Trim to be mitred, glued and spleened at factory and brought to the job put together.