jaundice
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/
- (US, dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒændɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑndɚz/, /ˈd͡ʒɔndɚz/ (see janders)
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔːndɪs
Noun
jaundice (countable and uncountable, plural jaundices)
- (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.
- Synonym: icterus
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 163:
- Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?
- 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:
- But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
- 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 215:
- In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
- 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, →ISBN, page 8:
- Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
- (figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. , volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 48:
- No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
Derived terms
Translations
morbid condition
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Verb
jaundice (third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced)
- (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
- 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel:
- The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
Translations
affect with jaundice; prejudice
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References
- ^ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book , 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, , →ISBN, § 7, page 33.
