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Collywobbles N Humorous Stomach Pain Queasiness Colic Dear

Word collywobbles
Definition n. (humorous) Stomach pain or queasiness. [from colic]
Sentence Well, my dear fellow, how are you? A touch of the collywobbles, I understand. Too bad, too bad.
Source Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 690

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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