spleenful

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Full of spleen; spiteful.

   “His fluency was as remarkable as ever, and at first as spleenful; by-and-by his outrageous mood gave way, and, in response to some of Rainham's adroit thrusts, he condescended to stand on his defence.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim More than one can take.

   “But suddenly, inexplicably, I've had a spleenful of it, and I'm going for the kid.”