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yellow fever en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An acute febrile illness of tropical regions, caused by a flavivirus (Yellow fever virus) and spread by certain mosquitoes, characterised by jaundice, black vomit and the absence of urination.
    • The town up the road was overcome by yellow fever, he said. All travelers warned away. 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 257:
  2. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) An attraction to ethnically East Asian men or women, expressed by non-East Asian (especially white European male or white American) people.
    • Your girl want me, we both know / Cause she got yellow fever 2015, “In This B*tch”, in WORLDWIDE, performed by Jay Park:
  3. (dated, figuratively, uncountable) A lust for gold; an obsession with seeking gold ore.
    • But the true yellow fever that has abounded in the lower gold-bearing valleys around Guanay can possibly illustrate in sickness what takes place in actuality among the sons of men who are seduced by the lust for gold. 1963, Robert Raine Geyer, Death Trails in Bolivia to Faith Triumphant:
    • He's got the yellow fever; Once get the sight of gold and you are poisoned. 1910, Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla Del West: The Girl of the Golden West:
    • An onze a day, two a day, or three—every one has the gold or yellow fever. Last night several of the most respectible American residents of this town arrived home from a visit to the gold regions. 1951, George Peter Hammond, The Larkin Papers, Univ of California Press:
    • In the stories he wrote and published about the gold rush, Dickens does not resolve characters' feelings of class resentment so much as explain them in non-political terms […] Dickens spreads this strain of 'yellow fever' among his characters, making their labour unrest seem both understandable and pathological. 2000 October 10, W. Jacobson, Dickens and the Children of Empire, Springer, →ISBN, pages 68–69:

Coordinates

Indian fever · blue fever · Arab fever · hybrid fever · jungle fever · white fever · black fever

Deriveds

yellow-fever mosquito

Hypernyms

mosquito-borne disease

Hyponyms

Japanese fever

Relateds

twinkie (sexual preference) · egg (sexual preference) · weeaboo (sexual preference) · rice king (sexual preference) · sideways (sexual preference) · banana (sexual preference)

Synonyms

Asian fever · yellow jack · gold fever · Bulam fever · black vomit

Translations (34)

da gul feber (illness) · th ไข้เหลือง (illness) · ga fiabhras buí (illness) · vi sốt vàng (illness) · nl gele koorts (illness) · ka ყვითელი ცხელება (illness) · ro friguri galbene (illness) · tr sarıhumma (illness) · sv gul feber (illness) · ru жёлтая лихора́дка (illness) · yo ibà pọ́njú-pọ́ntọ̀ (illness) · uk жо́вта гаря́чка (illness) · de Gelbfieber (illness) · hu sárgaláz (illness) · fr fièvre jaune (illness) · ja 黄熱 (illness) · ar حَمَّى صَفْرَاء (illness) · yua xekik (illness) · es fiebre amarilla (illness) · pt febre amarela (illness) · ko 황열 (illness) · eo flava febro (illness) · gd fiabhras-buidhe (illness) · br terzhienn-velen (illness) · ru амарилле́з (illness) · pl żółta febra (illness) · sw homa ya manjano (illness) · ka ყვითელი ციებ-ცხელება (illness) · id demam kuning (illness) · fi keltakuume (illness) · vi sốt vàng da (illness) · cmn 黃熱病 /黄热病 (illness) · ms demam kuning (illness) · sv gula febern (illness)