The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BILE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Shakespearean humor crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BILE | 100 % | 4 |
Why may BILE be the right solution?
In Shakespearean times, it was believed that a person's mood and temperament were determined by the balance of four bodily fluids or "humors" - blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. "Bile" refers specifically to the humor associated with anger or irritability, which is often used in Shakespeare's plays to create humor.
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Crossword Answer definitions
BILE noun- A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
- Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- A boil (kind of swelling).
- (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- To cook in boiling water.
- (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- (used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- To steep or soak in warm water.
- To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
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