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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 55 The yeoman of the mouth..rehearsed this second il successe, wherwith Peters successour was so in his mulliegrums that he had thought to haue buffeted him.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 46 She's in her Mulligrubs already.

1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 85 It lulls a wee my mullygrubs, To think upon these bitten scrubs.

a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 5 A call'd her a purting glum-pot, zed her'd got the mulligrubs.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 Sept. (1941) 104 Surely these mulligrubs belong to the mind more than the body.

1858 Sci. Amer. 25 Sept. 22/3 (heading) The Atlantic telegraph cable.—John Bull in a fit of mulligrubs.

1886 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends 82 When there was an east wind Geordie was sure to be in the mollygrubs.

1907 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp & Other Stories 212 Don't you think it might chase away some of your mullygrubs?

1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iv. iii. 690 I knowed in season she'd have the mullygrubs we them doin's.

1933 N. B. Morrison Gowk Storm 8 When any of the brothers had the mooligrubs or sullens, she would tell him she would whip him.

1976 Notts. Free Press 10 Dec. 22/2 Ar missus's got mulligrubs. Me an' 'er hesna spoke sin Thosdee.

1999 Denver Post 10 Oct. B 6/3 She doesn't like to be down in the mullygrubs.