subs. (common).—The stomach-ache; also the rumblings of flatulency; figuratively, the stomach.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Wiffle-waffles; gripes; mulligrubs.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Mal au bréchet, also gargouillade.
1853. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, pt. I., ch. viii. ‘Peakyish you feel, don’t you, now, with a touch of the mulligrubs in your COLLYWOBBLES?’
c. 1880. Broadside Ballad, ‘Complaints’ or ‘The Ills of Life.’
| Then I’ve had the colic, spasms, dizziness, and swimmings, | |
| Mullygrubs and COLLYWOBBLES, with delicious trimmings. |
