mulligrub
/ˈmʌlɪɡrʌb
/(also mullygrub) archaic or dialect
verb [no object]
Complain or sulk: it’s too late to mulligrub about it...
- From that day forward, I didn't mullygrub about chemo.
- "Don't mullygrub," I always said to my kids when they were having a down day.
- At least he wasn't still mulligrubbing about the labor.
plural noun
(the mulligrubs) Feelings of melancholy, sullenness, or depression: another attack of the mulligrubs he was down in the mulligrubs...
- I was down in the mullygrubs for a month.
- That would have been easier for her than seein' Pa so down in the mulligrubs.
- His wife had left him two months before and he was down in the mulligrubs.
Origin
Late 16th century: of uncertain origin. Compare with mullygrub.