jaundice


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jaundice /ˈdʒɔːndɪs/
noun
  • 1 Medicine yellowing of the skin due to an excess of bile pigments in the blood.
  • 2 bitterness or resentment.
– derivatives
jaundiced adjective.
– origin ME jaunes, from OFr. jaunice ‘yellowness’, from jaune ‘yellow’.
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