spleenful

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A quantity of invective.
    — Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd — the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous— which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.
  2. More than one can take.
    — But suddenly, inexplicably, I've had a spleenful of it, and I'm going for the kid.
形容词 adj.
  1. Full of spleen; spiteful.
    — The spleenful Pigeons never could create A prince more proper to revenge their hate: Indeed, more proper to revenge, than save; A king, whom in his wrath the Almighty gave: For all the grace the landlord had allow'd, But made the Buzzard and the Pigeons proud; Gave time to fix their friends, and to seduce the crowd.

词形变化

more spleenful comparative most spleenful superlative

词源

词源 1
From spleen + -ful.
词源 2
From spleen + -ful.
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