Burmese Days

Burmese Days Glossary

arrears

in debt

ataxic

stuttering

bilious

bad-tempered

calumniated

spread rumors about

cicerone

a mentor

desultory

not serious; lacking effort

effusively

full of expression

epicene

possessing features of both sexes; effeminate

haggard

rundown; thin and tired from worry or fatigue or hunger

lout

a brutish person

malaise

general discomfort or unease

matutinal

occurring in the morning

nebulous

formless; shapeless

nullify

to render void

ochreous

the red-yellow color of iron ore

querulously

in a fretful, whining manner

sacrosanct

sacred; holy; inviolable

sanguinary

bloody

shirked

avoided

wantonly

without limits or controls