lurgyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈləːɡi/, U.S.

/ˈlərɡi/

Forms: 1700s– lurgy, 1800s– lurgie, 1900s– lergy, 1900s– lurgi. Also (in sense A. 2) with capital initial.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Recorded earliest in fever-lurgy n., which is a synonym of earlier fever-lurden n. Perhaps simply a variant of lurdan n.; perhaps influenced by or otherwise connected with lurk v. (compare sense 1b at that entry and also the English and U.S. regional forms cited at fever-lurgy n.).Slightly earlier currency of sense A. 2 is implied by lurgy-lurgy adj. at Compounds, and by the following quotation (referring to an incident in North Africa in March 1943):1974 S. Milligan ‘Rommel?’ ‘Gunner Who?’ 122 I was to relieve L/Bdr. Wenham at the Command Post. He'd come up in strange splotches and was reporting sick... He was covered in dabs of some purple medicine. ‘It's lurgi’ he grinned. In lurgy fever n. at Compounds apparently after fever-lurgy n., with inversion of elements.

A. n.

1. English regional (chiefly Cornwall and northern). In singular and plural. Frequently with the. Idleness, laziness, esp. regarded humorously or ironically as a medical condition. Also: a fit of depression, esp. one caused by a hangover. Cf. lurgy fever n. at Compounds, fever-lurden n. Now rare.Recorded earliest in fever-lurgy n.In quot. 2002 in a work of historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun]

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun]

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1769 W. Borlase Antiq. Cornwall (rev. ed.) Gloss. 444/1 Lurgy, qu. feaver lurgy, i.e. the Fever of Laziness; a pretended Fever; i.e. no Fever at all.

1804 W. Lander Wks. 36 Both in the lurgy and the gripes, These cakes are useful things.

1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 5 162 Lurgies, the blues, after drinking.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 36/2 The fever of lurgy.

1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) 205/2 He's fash't wi' lurgie.

1907 T. R. Swinburne Holiday in Happy Valley ix. 158 He is overcome by a fit of that fell disease—‘the lurgies’.

1949 C. Berry Cornwall vii. 203 ‘You've got the lurgies.’—‘You are lazy.’

2002 W. Graham Bella Poldark i. 9 It was..his nature to be restive; but he often found when an attack of what Demelza called the lurgies was pending, a long fast walk..helped to drive it away.

2. slang (humorous, originally British Military, now chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand). A non-specific disease (originally, an imagined virulently infectious disease; later, any familiar illness). Frequently with the. Often in the dreaded lurgy.Popularized by the British radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951–60), particularly by the 1954 episode ‘Lurgi strikes Britain’ (see quot. 1954); cf. goon n. 4. See also nadger n. 1 for another term of this type associated with the Goons.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]

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Korean haemorrhagic fever1951

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > fictitious disease

the dreaded lurgy1947

lurgy1947

1947 Amer. Speech 22 304/2 Lergy (the). This..is pronounced with a hard ‘g’ and is a completely mythological disease against which every soldier is warned at one time or another, and with which almost every disease is identified. Variants of this are many and diverse, usually exhibiting geographical characteristics: the Malayan Lergy, the Progressive Indonesian Lergy, etc.

1952 S. Milligan & L. Stephens Goon Show (B.B.C. Radio script: 2nd Ser. No. 24) 8 Harry. Now, you claim that if we set you up in a well-equipped laboratory, you will find the cure for almost everything. Mike. (dramatically) Yes—including the dreaded Lurgi.

1954 E. Sykes & S. Milligan Goon Show (B.B.C. Radio script: 5th Ser. No. 7) 2 On the Isle of Ewe, the dreaded Lurgi struck—in six weeks..Lurgi had destroyed the entire population.

1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 129/1 If the books are to be believed, chooks are prone to a whole nest of lurgies.

1993 B. Anderson All Nice Girls (1994) v. 92 Eunice Glover had come down with a lurgy and she knew it was short notice but could Sophie slip down?

2015 Daily Mirror 4 Sept. 12 Lots of sex boosts our immune systems and helps us fight off coughs, colds and other lurgies.

†B. adj.

English regional (Cornwall and northern). Idle, lazy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]

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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Lurgy, idle.

1856 J. Davies Races of Lancs. 275 Lurgy, idle.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Lurgy,..idle; loafing, &c.

1902 M. A. Courtney in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 695/1 [W. Cornwall] I'm took lurgy.

Compounds

† lurgy fever n. chiefly English regional (Cornwall and northern) Obsolete idleness, laziness, esp. regarded humorously or ironically as a disease; cf. fever-lurgy n.

ΚΠ

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) The lurgy-fever, idleness. ‘Shoes sick o't' lurgy fever.’

1868 Astro-meteoric Jrnl. 375 Come, rouse thee! Get home to thy employment; eat temperately; work briskly—so shalt thou overcome this ‘Lurgy-fever’, thy bane!

a1895 T. C. Peter MS Coll. Cornish Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 695/1 Lurgy-fever, [idleness, laziness].

lurgy-lurgy adj. British Military slang (now rare) suffering from temporary delirium.

ΚΠ

1943 Fortune Dec. 268/2 If he was a British Tommy on the North African desert, he may have gone ‘lurgy lurgy’ or ‘sand happy’.

1945 21 Army Group Med. Gaz. 1 June 34 Many other titles have been ‘coined’ during this war to camouflage the fact that the condition [sc. shell-shock] is neurotic..separation anxiety,..flying stress, lurgy-lurgy, glacier happy, barrack wacky etc.!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lurgy
释义	lurgyn.adj. Brit. /ˈləːɡi/, U.S. /ˈlərɡi/ Forms: 1700s– lurgy, 1800s– lurgie, 1900s– lergy, 1900s– lurgi. Also (in sense A. 2) with capital initial. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Recorded earliest in fever-lurgy n., which is a synonym of earlier fever-lurden n. Perhaps simply a variant of lurdan n.; perhaps influenced by or otherwise connected with lurk v. (compare sense 1b at that entry and also the English and U.S. regional forms cited at fever-lurgy n.).Slightly earlier currency of sense A. 2 is implied by lurgy-lurgy adj. at Compounds, and by the following quotation (referring to an incident in North Africa in March 1943):1974 S. Milligan ‘Rommel?’ ‘Gunner Who?’ 122 I was to relieve L/Bdr. Wenham at the Command Post. He'd come up in strange splotches and was reporting sick... He was covered in dabs of some purple medicine. ‘It's lurgi’ he grinned. In lurgy fever n. at Compounds apparently after fever-lurgy n., with inversion of elements. A. n. 1. English regional (chiefly Cornwall and northern). In singular and plural. Frequently with the. Idleness, laziness, esp. regarded humorously or ironically as a medical condition. Also: a fit of depression, esp. one caused by a hangover. Cf. lurgy fever n. at Compounds, fever-lurden n. Now rare.Recorded earliest in fever-lurgy n.In quot. 2002 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] idlea1000 idlenessc1000 emptinessOE idlelaikc1175 idleheada1325 idleship1357 otiosity1483 idlehoodc1540 idleteth1584 idleset1591 fallownessa1594 vacantry1598 vacancy1615 lurgy1769 inanity1782 inoccupation1783 vacuity1817 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] sleuthc888 sweernessc888 slacknessc897 unlustOE aswolkenessc1000 slothc1175 sweeringa1300 sloth-head1303 unlusthead1340 nicetya1387 sluggardy1390 sluggardness1398 nicehead1440 musardryc1450 slugnessc1450 lashness1477 sweerdomc1480 truantness1483 passibilityc1485 sleuthfulness1488 sluggardry1513 slothfulness1526 sluggardise1532 luskishness1538 desidiousnessa1540 ocivity1550 restiness?c1550 niceness1557 laziness1580 easinessa1586 poltroonery1590 facility1615 pigritude1623 pigrity1623 otiosity1632 easefulnessa1639 dronishness1674 reasiness1679 indolence1710 accidity1730 indolency1741 lurgy1769 donothingness1814 far niente1819 oisivity1830 donothingism1839 dronage1846 lotus-eating1852 faineance1853 faineancy1854 bummerism1858 lazyhood1866 bone-laziness1875 sleevelessness1882 bummery1887 sluggardliness1977 1769 W. Borlase Antiq. Cornwall (rev. ed.) Gloss. 444/1 Lurgy, qu. feaver lurgy, i.e. the Fever of Laziness; a pretended Fever; i.e. no Fever at all. 1804 W. Lander Wks. 36 Both in the lurgy and the gripes, These cakes are useful things. 1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. in Reliquary 5 162 Lurgies, the blues, after drinking. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 36/2 The fever of lurgy. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) 205/2 He's fash't wi' lurgie. 1907 T. R. Swinburne Holiday in Happy Valley ix. 158 He is overcome by a fit of that fell disease—‘the lurgies’. 1949 C. Berry Cornwall vii. 203 ‘You've got the lurgies.’—‘You are lazy.’ 2002 W. Graham Bella Poldark i. 9 It was..his nature to be restive; but he often found when an attack of what Demelza called the lurgies was pending, a long fast walk..helped to drive it away. 2. slang (humorous, originally British Military, now chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand). A non-specific disease (originally, an imagined virulently infectious disease; later, any familiar illness). Frequently with the. Often in the dreaded lurgy.Popularized by the British radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951–60), particularly by the 1954 episode ‘Lurgi strikes Britain’ (see quot. 1954); cf. goon n. 4. See also nadger n. 1 for another term of this type associated with the Goons. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > fictitious disease the dreaded lurgy1947 lurgy1947 1947 Amer. Speech 22 304/2 Lergy (the). This..is pronounced with a hard ‘g’ and is a completely mythological disease against which every soldier is warned at one time or another, and with which almost every disease is identified. Variants of this are many and diverse, usually exhibiting geographical characteristics: the Malayan Lergy, the Progressive Indonesian Lergy, etc. 1952 S. Milligan & L. Stephens Goon Show (B.B.C. Radio script: 2nd Ser. No. 24) 8 Harry. Now, you claim that if we set you up in a well-equipped laboratory, you will find the cure for almost everything. Mike. (dramatically) Yes—including the dreaded Lurgi. 1954 E. Sykes & S. Milligan Goon Show (B.B.C. Radio script: 5th Ser. No. 7) 2 On the Isle of Ewe, the dreaded Lurgi struck—in six weeks..Lurgi had destroyed the entire population. 1986 More (N.Z.) Feb. 129/1 If the books are to be believed, chooks are prone to a whole nest of lurgies. 1993 B. Anderson All Nice Girls (1994) v. 92 Eunice Glover had come down with a lurgy and she knew it was short notice but could Sophie slip down? 2015 Daily Mirror 4 Sept. 12 Lots of sex boosts our immune systems and helps us fight off coughs, colds and other lurgies. †B. adj. English regional (Cornwall and northern). Idle, lazy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] sweerc725 foridledc1230 idlea1300 faintc1325 recrayed1340 slewful1340 nicea1398 sleuthya1400 delicate?c1400 sleuthfulc1400 slothfulc1400 sloth1412 lurdanc1480 luskinga1500 luskish15.. droning1509 bumbard?a1513 slottery1513 desidiousa1540 lazy1549 slovening1549 truanta1550 sleuth1567 litherly1573 truantly1579 dronish1580 lubberly1580 truant-like1583 shiftless1584 sluggard1594 fat1598 lusky1604 sweatless1606 clumse1611 easeful1611 loselly1611 do-littlea1613 sluggardisha1627 pigritious1638 drony1653 murcid1656 thokisha1682 shammockinga1704 indolent1710 huddroun1721 nothing-doing1724 desidiose1727 lusk1775 slack-twisted1794 sweert1817 bone-lazya1825 lurgy1828 straight-backed1830 do-nothing1832 slobbish1833 bone idle1836 slouch1837 lotophagous1841 shammocky1841 bein1847 thoky1847 lotus-eating1852 fainéant1855 sluggardly1865 lazy-boned1875 do-naught1879 easy-going1879 lazyish1892 slobbed1962 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Lurgy, idle. 1856 J. Davies Races of Lancs. 275 Lurgy, idle. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Lurgy,..idle; loafing, &c. 1902 M. A. Courtney in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 695/1 [W. Cornwall] I'm took lurgy. Compounds † lurgy fever n. chiefly English regional (Cornwall and northern) Obsolete idleness, laziness, esp. regarded humorously or ironically as a disease; cf. fever-lurgy n. ΚΠ 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) The lurgy-fever, idleness. ‘Shoes sick o't' lurgy fever.’ 1868 Astro-meteoric Jrnl. 375 Come, rouse thee! Get home to thy employment; eat temperately; work briskly—so shalt thou overcome this ‘Lurgy-fever’, thy bane! a1895 T. C. Peter MS Coll. Cornish Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 695/1 Lurgy-fever, [idleness, laziness]. lurgy-lurgy adj. British Military slang (now rare) suffering from temporary delirium. ΚΠ 1943 Fortune Dec. 268/2 If he was a British Tommy on the North African desert, he may have gone ‘lurgy lurgy’ or ‘sand happy’. 1945 21 Army Group Med. Gaz. 1 June 34 Many other titles have been ‘coined’ during this war to camouflage the fact that the condition [sc. shell-shock] is neurotic..separation anxiety,..flying stress, lurgy-lurgy, glacier happy, barrack wacky etc.! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1769
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