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green-eyed
adjective
Informal.
jealous; envious; distrustful.
More about green-eyed
Green-eyed means “jealous” and is probably most familiar from Shakespeare鈥檚 phrase green-eyed monster (Othello, 1604). In the ancient and medieval humoral theory, an excess of yellow bile, which was thought to give the skin a greenish tint, was associated with the element fire and produced a violent, short-tempered, vengeful character. Green-eyed in its literal sense entered English in the 16th century.
how is green-eyed used?
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock / the meat it feeds on …
The protagonist, Ida, has a green-eyed prettiness …
More about viator
Viator comes straight from Latin 惫颈腻迟辞谤 鈥渢raveler,鈥� formed from the noun via 鈥渢rack, road鈥� and the noun suffix -tor signifying agency. Many occurrences of 惫颈腻迟辞谤 are on epitaphs on Roman tombs from the 鈥渙ccupant,鈥� asking travelers passing by not to deface the tomb with graffiti, or warning, 鈥淟ook out! Your turn is coming!鈥� 痴颈腻迟辞谤 was also a title of Mercury, the patron and protector of travelers and the escort of the dead to the underworld. A 惫颈腻迟辞谤 was also an agent employed on official errands for magistrates, other public officers, and professional organizations. Viator entered English in the early 16th century.
how is viator used?
… how long he was a viator or traveler in his course of obedience no man knows.
… these are so graciously concealed by the fine trees of their grounds, that the passing viator remains unappalled by them …
fantods
noun
a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
More about fantods
In chapter eight of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn聽(1884), Huck, hiding on Jackson鈥檚 Island, spots a man sleeping on the ground: 鈥淚t most give me the fantods.鈥� Here the meaning of fantods is plain enough: “acute distress, fear, panic”; the meanings of fantods range between irritability, tension, an emotional fit or outburst, and physical or mental disorder鈥攏ot at all specific. Fantods has no reliable etymology: it may be a jocular formation based on fantasy or fantastic. Fantods entered English in the 19th century.
how is fantods used?
It gave me the fantods to discover myself cooped up in that narrow room with such a ghastly figure beside me, which I’ll describe to you as best I can.
What would Mr. Gorey make of his status as an All Hallows鈥� Eve grand ghoul were he alive to see it?
鈥淭hat would have given Gorey himself the fantods,鈥� said聽Mark Dery, using one of the antiquated words the artist loved to collect and trot out in his books.