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lurgy|ˈlɜːgɪ|
Also lurgi.
Usu. in phr. the dreaded lurgy. A fictitious, highly infectious disease invented (?) and made a byword by the Radio Goons (goon 4).
For the possibility that the word is not invented, cf. fever-lurgy, dial. var. of fever-lurden, and E.D.D. s.v. lurgies, lurgy adj. & n.
1954Radio Times 9 Nov. 20/3 The Goon Show... Poor Arnold Fringe is suddenly stricken with the Dreaded Lurgi... Within a few days Lurgi has claimed nine thousand victims. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games ii. 75 (heading) The dreaded lurgy. 1971It 15–29 July 5/3 The youth of Australia have been saved once more from the dreaded lurgy, marijuana. 1974H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World ix. 149, I was beginning to feel weak and knew that I had caught the dreaded swamp lurgy. |