“collywobbles”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

collywobbles

释义

collywobbles colloq.|ˈkɒlɪwɒb(ə)lz|
[Fantastic formation on colic n. and wobble n.]
A disordered state of the stomach characterized by rumbling in the intestines; diarrhœa with stomach-ache; hence gen. indisposition, ‘butterflies in the stomach’, a state of nervous fear. (In quot. 1853 used nonsensically.)
1823Egan Grose's Dict. Vulgar T., Collywobbles, the gripes.1841Punch 9 Oct. 154/1 To..keep him from getting the collywobbles in his pandenoodles.1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. viii, A touch of the mulligrubs in your collywobbles?1901F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 308 He laughingly excused himself on the ground that his songs were calculated to give a white man collywobbles.1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. x. 185 He is a ‘funk’..or has ‘got the collywobbles’.

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