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Green-eyed monster

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Envy, jealousy, covetousness. colloquial, usually

    "[Iago:] Oh, beware my Lord, of iealouſie, / It is the greene-ey'd Monſter, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

  2. 2
    a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) wordnet

Etymology

From green + eye + monster. Coined by William Shakespeare in his play Othello.

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