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heartburned en · ADJ

Etymology

From heart + burned.

Meanings

  1. Having heartburn.
    • How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

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more heartburned Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most heartburned Degree=Sup lexicographic