单词 | collywobbles |
释义 | collywobblesn. colloquial. A disordered state of the stomach characterized by rumbling in the intestines; diarrhoea with stomach-ache; hence gen. indisposition, ‘butterflies in the stomach’, a state of nervous fear. (In quot. 1853 used nonsensically.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > disordered state of stomach collywobbles1823 butterfly1958 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of stomach > [noun] > gastric disturbance working1577 undulation1681 gastricity1796 collywobbles1823 all of a rejumble1866 tummy upset1926 Delhi belly1942 Spanish tummy1967 tummy bug1969 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Collywobbles, the gripes. 1841 Punch 9 Oct. 154/1 To..keep him from getting the collywobbles in his pandenoodles. 1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green viii. 75 A touch of the mulligrubs in your collywobbles? 1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 308 He laughingly excused himself on the ground that his songs were calculated to give a white man collywobbles. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 185 He is a ‘funk’..or has ‘got the collywobbles’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。