spleen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displaced the native English term milt.
Inflected forms:
form: spleens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spleens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spleening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spleened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spleened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
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.
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.
Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
gloss: A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways.
Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth
gloss: Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
gloss: A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By virtue, thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought, my spleen
gloss: To dislike.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: T. Wentworth ſpleen'd the Bishop
gloss: To annoy or irritate.
pos: verb
examples: There had been a good deal of provocation, we have no doubt, before the republican simplicity, at which Mrs Trollope seems to have been so justly offended, was spleened into speaking of the old woman.
If you want to know why I am always spleening her, it is because I am always elsewhere with friends, and disseminating so much currency, and performing so many things that can spleen a mother.
gloss: To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It was satisfactory to a majority of the bolters, but most of the democrats spleened against him.
He never counseled litigation for the sake of litigation, and no client ever complained of his loyalty, He hated sham and pretense, and openly spleened at the empty mouthing oracle of the street corner, the society, or the church.
O Captain, my Captain, I shan't migrain that fight —A teritable Dunga Minh art thou, A phantom of loneflight; And though I've swaggered you and spleened you, By the living bilge that gleaned you — You're a better man than I am, Dunga Minh!
When he phoned the old man in Idaho, Herman Zaunbrecher spleened “no dothead fucking quack's gonna treat my boy like a lab rat” and ordered the surgeon to put Randall on the next flight to Boise.
gloss: To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
pos: verb
examples: Nor did they only take Townes, kill such as made resistance, and rob houses, with the Licentiousnesse and Avarice of Souldiers, but with barbarous Inhumanity spared no age nor modesty; tyrannizing over the Rest and Monuments of the dead, which they spleened as much as the Living;
I grant a good deal to Grecian pride of prose, and Roman fund of poesy, when spleened and gored to shame, defeat, and loss of prestige, on the battle-field by mere "barbaric" ( ? ) troops of Cimbric Hyperborean Celts.
"That is true," quoth Albertu, “but pray consider on the other side that animals spleened grow extremely salacious, an experiment well known in dogs."
gloss: To excise or remove.
pos: verb
examples: That will be how we lose what we have gained, The incremental rapture at the core, Spleened of the belly's thick placental wrath, And the seed's roar.
Picking up where I left off...broken down, knowing they'd pick through my bones like vultures for what marrow they hadn't already spleened from me.
There is even a subtle reference to sexuality in the poem, but it is formulated in such a manner that it is spleened of all vulgarity.
Synonyms: lien
milt
Related words: splen-
splenectomy
splenetic
splenic
spleno-
splenocleisis
splenomegaly
splenosis
Derived words: accessory spleen
antispleen
sago spleen
spleenful
spleenish
spleenless
spleenlike
spleen stone
spleenwort
spleeny
sugar-coated spleen
unspleened
vent one's spleen
wandering spleen
waxy spleen
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: milt
lang: Ahtna
word: cʼetaeleʼ
lang: Albanian
word: shpretkë
lang: Southern Altai
word: телӱӱн
roman: telüün
lang: Southern Altai
word: кӧк буур
roman: kök buur
lang: Ao
word: tepa (Chungli)
lang: Arabic
word: طِحَال
roman: ṭiḥāl
lang: Arabic
word: طحال
roman: ṭuḥāl
lang: Arabic
word: طحال
roman: ṭuḥāl
lang: Armenian
word: փայծաղ
roman: pʻaycaġ
lang: Old Armenian
word: փայծաղն
roman: pʻaycałn
lang: Asturian
word: bazu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dalaq
lang: West Coast Bajau
word: kura'
lang: Bashkir
word: талаҡ
roman: talaq
lang: Basque
word: bare
lang: Belarusian
word: селязёнка
roman: sjeljazjónka
lang: Bengali
word: প্লীহা
roman: pliha
lang: Bhojpuri
word: तिल्ली
roman: tillī
lang: Bulgarian
word: дала́к
roman: dalák
lang: Bulgarian
word: сле́зка
roman: slézka
lang: Burmese
word: သရက်ရွက်
roman: sa.rak-rwak
lang: Buryat
word: дэлюун
roman: deljuun
lang: Catalan
word: melsa
lang: Chichewa
word: kapamba
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 脾臟 /脾脏
roman: pei⁴ zong⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 脾臟 /脾脏
roman: pízàng
lang: Chuvash
word: сула
roman: sula
lang: Cornish
word: felgh
lang: Czech
word: slezina
lang: Danish
word: milt
lang: Daur
word: delukin
lang: Dhivehi
word: ހުންކޮށި
roman: hun̊koṣi
lang: Dutch
word: milt
lang: Egyptian
word: M22-M22-Sm-m-F51
roman: nnšm
lang: Erzya
word: шечей
roman: šečej
lang: Esperanto
word: lieno
lang: Estonian
word: põrn
lang: Evenki
word: ӣлэн
roman: īlən
lang: Evenki
word: дэлкин
roman: dəlkin
lang: Faroese
word: milti
lang: Faroese
word: milt
lang: Finnish
word: perna
lang: French
word: rate
lang: Galician
word: bazo
lang: Galician
word: paxarela
lang: Georgian
word: ელენთა
roman: elenta
lang: German
word: Milz
lang: Greek
word: σπλην
roman: splin
lang: Greek
word: σπλήνα
roman: splína
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σπλήν
roman: splḗn
lang: Cappadocian Greek
word: πεϊσάχι
roman: peïsáchi
lang: Hadza
word: puche
lang: Hanunoo
word: anarip
lang: Hebrew
word: טחול
roman: tkhol
lang: Hindi
word: तिल्ली
roman: tillī
lang: Hindi
word: प्लीहा
roman: plīhā
lang: Hindi
word: पिलई
roman: pilaī
lang: Hindi
word: तिहाल
roman: tihāl
lang: Hungarian
word: lép
lang: Hunsrik
word: Mils
lang: Icelandic
word: milta
lang: Ido
word: spleno
lang: Indonesian
word: limpa
lang: Indonesian
word: kura
lang: Indonesian
word: lien
lang: Inuktitut
word: ᒪᔅᓴᒃ
roman: massak
lang: Irish
word: liathán
lang: Italian
word: milza
lang: Italian
word: splene
lang: Japanese
word: 脾臓
roman: hizō
lang: Jarai
word: la
lang: Javanese
word: ꦭꦶꦩ꧀ꦥ
roman: limpa
lang: Kalmyk
word: делүн
roman: delün
lang: Kapampangan
word: lape
lang: Kazakh
word: көк бауыр
roman: kök bauyr
lang: Khmer
word: កណ្ដុក
roman: kɑɑkɑndok
lang: Khmer
word: ផាល
roman: phaal
lang: Korean
word: 지라
roman: jira
lang: Central Kurdish
word: سپڵ
roman: spill
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: sipil
lang: Kyrgyz
word: көк боор
roman: kök boor
lang: Lao
word: ມ້າມ
roman: mām
lang: Latin
word: liēn
lang: Latvian
word: liesa
lang: Laz
word: ფანწალა
roman: panǯala
lang: Lithuanian
word: blužnis
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Mëlz
lang: Macedonian
word: слезина
roman: slezina
lang: Malay
word: limpa
lang: Malay
word: pelih
lang: Malay
word: kura
lang: Malayalam
word: പ്ലീഹ
roman: plīha
lang: Maltese
word: milsa
lang: Manchu
word: ᡩᡝᠯᡳᡥᡠᠨ
roman: delihun
lang: Manx
word: ahlea
lang: Māori
word: kōateate
lang: Māori
word: mahara
lang: Marathi
word: प्लीहा
roman: plīhā
lang: Marshallese
word: aj
lang: Central Melanau
word: atai besi
lang: Middle English
word: milte
lang: Mòcheno
word: schmilz
lang: Mongolian
word: дэлүү
roman: delüü
lang: Navajo
word: atélí
lang: Norman
word: rate
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: milt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: milt
lang: Occitan
word: mèlsa
lang: Old English
word: milte
lang: Ossetian
word: фарсылӕвзаг
roman: farsylævzag
lang: Pangasinan
word: pali
lang: Persian
word: طحال
roman: tahâl
lang: Persian
word: اسپرز
roman: esporz
lang: Persian
word: سپرز
roman: seporz
lang: Persian
word: اسبل
roman: esbol
lang: Middle Persian
word: 𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭫𐭩
roman: spul
lang: Middle Persian
word: 𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭫𐭰
roman: spurz
lang: Piedmontese
word: milsa
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Miltz
lang: Polish
word: śledziona
lang: Portuguese
word: baço
lang: Quechua
word: k'ayrapin
lang: Romanian
word: splină
lang: Russian
word: селезёнка
roman: selezjónka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: слезѝна
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: слезѐна
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slezìna
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slezèna
lang: Sicilian
word: meusa
lang: Slovak
word: slezina
lang: Slovene
word: vranica
lang: Spanish
word: bazo
lang: Sundanese
word: kawaya
lang: Swahili
word: wengu
lang: Swedish
word: mjälte
lang: Tagalog
word: pali
lang: Tajik
word: испурч
roman: ispurč
lang: Tajik
word: сипурз
roman: sipurz
lang: Tamil
word: மண்ணீரல்
roman: maṇṇīral
lang: Lower Tanana
word: ch'etala'
lang: Tarifit
word: inarfeḍ
lang: Tatar
word: талак
roman: talaq
lang: Telugu
word: ప్లీహము
roman: plīhamu
lang: Thai
word: ม้าม
roman: máam
lang: Turkish
word: dalak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طالاق
roman: dalak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طحال
roman: tahal
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سپرز
roman: süpürz
lang: Turkmen
word: dalak
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎉𐎈𐎍
roman: ṭḥl
lang: Ukrainian
word: селезі́нка
roman: selezínka
lang: Urdu
word: تللی
roman: tilī
lang: Uyghur
word: تال
roman: tal
lang: Uzbek
word: taloq
lang: Vietnamese
word: lách
lang: Vietnamese
word: lá lách
lang: Volapük
word: splen
lang: Welsh
word: dueg
lang: Yakut
word: таал
roman: taal
lang: Yiddish
word: מילץ
roman: milts
lang: Northern Yukaghir
word: льукульаайэ
roman: ļukuļaaje