bilious

Modifies a noun

• vomiting: Bilious vomiting in neonates ( and older children ) mandates further investigation to exclude intestinal obstruction.
• fever: He had what the doctors termed ' bilious fever ' .
• attack: On Wednesday morning she was still unwell and had a bilious attack.
• rant: It's hard to pick up a tabloid these days without reading bilious rants about one or more of three institutions... .

Modifying Another Word

• naturally: Therefore Hippocrates not improperly advised those who were naturally bilious not to take honey, since they were obviously of too warm a temperament.
• wonderfully: The material on staging is impressively technical and represented in wonderfully bilious colors which recall the great days of 1980s computing.