Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbidly frequent evacuation of the bowels, generally arising from inflammation or irritation of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and commonly caused by errors in regimen, as the use of food hurtful from its quantity or quality; intestinal catarrh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A condition in which the sufferer has frequent and watery
bowel movements . - noun The watery excrement that comes from said bowel movements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A fever of 104 plus a day full of diarrhea is no fun at all.
104 Will 2009
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I'm pretty sure our societal diarrhea is a direct result of irritable GOPers and neocons agitating the extreme right-wing of their party solely for political gain.
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Your verbal diarrhea is a simple reaction to decades of mental constipation.
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A marine with diarrhea is being chased by a Japanese soldier waving a bayonet.
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A fever of 104 plus a day full of diarrhea is no fun at all.
Archive 2009-02-01 Will 2009
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See thats their problem, their use to the diarrhea from the lips of there px chicken-hawked hero ` s and now with no teeth there meals a full of that tough sh!
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Has anyone ever travelled with small children, or gotten a case of diarrhea from the airplane food?
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"If you get a good bout of diarrhea from a waterborne disease," she says, "you really understand what it means to have access to clean drinking water."
Archive 2008-11-01 Peggy 2008
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The latter, his verbosity, or really a propensity towards verbal diarrhea, is what is potentially toxic in the modern campaign.
More Thoughts on Biden xtra 2008
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The latter, his verbosity, or really a propensity towards verbal diarrhea, is what is potentially toxic in the modern campaign.
Archive 2008-08-01 xtra 2008
fredrx commented on the word diarrhea
beautiful sounding word with aweful connotation
October 23, 2008