grippen.
= influenza n.
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influenza1743
grippe1775
lightning catarrh1836
flu1839
Spanish influenza1890
St. Kilda cold1897
Spanish flu1918
Asian flu1957
Asian influenza1957
Mao flu1968
Asian contagion1997
1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Dec. in Corr. (1894) 64 An epidemic cold seems to have spread itself from London to Barcelona. In passing through this kingdom [sc. France], it has obtained the name of ‘grippe’—a term significant enough from the nature of its attack on the throat.
1803 T. Campbell Let. 27 Mar. in Life & Lett. (1849) I. 425 John has been dubbed Dr. Leyden, and the influenza has been called La grippe.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 193 The epidemic of 1803–4 (known by the name of grippe).
1890 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 441 Four of the weans have had the grippe.
1891 Boston Daily Globe 24 Mar. 5/1 The grip is with us again... This year the grip seems to have started in Chicago.
Derivatives
grippé adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > influenza
influenzal1803
influenzaed1836
influenzacized1849
influenzic1887
grippé1890
gripped1892
'flu-like1941
1890 W. Bateson Let. 16 Jan. in B. Bateson W. Bateson (1928) 40 I am glad to hear that you were so slightly ‘grippé’ after all.
1933 J. Joyce Let. 18 Oct. (1966) III. 288 I..have to put it off, being slightly grippé.
gripped adj. affected with the ‘grippe’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > influenza
influenzal1803
influenzaed1836
influenzacized1849
influenzic1887
grippé1890
gripped1892
'flu-like1941
1892 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 233 The one whose bed was opposite to the gripped patient.
1892 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 235 A visitor arrived there gripped on Dec. 12, 1889.
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