spleen

Definitions


[spliːn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an abdominal organ involved in the production and removal of blood cells in most vertebrates and forming part of the immune system

- bad temper; spite
(e.g: he could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him)


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Origin:
Middle English: shortening of Old French esplen, via Latin from Greek splēn; spleen derives from the earlier belief that the spleen was the seat of bad temper




definition by Oxford Dictionaries