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mulligrubs, n. pl.|ˈmʌlɪgrʌbz|
Forms: 6 mulliegrums, (7–8 Dicts. mouldy-grubs, 8 ma-lé-grubbles, 9 mulleygrubs), 9 Sc. mulligrumphs, 8–9 mullygrubs, 7–9 mulligrubs.
[A grotesque arbitrary formation.]
1. A state of depression of spirits; a fit of megrims or spleen; in early use in phr. (in) her, his, etc., mulligrubs, sick of the mulligrubs; hence jocularly, stomach-ache or colic.
1599Nashe 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. 1619Fletcher M. Thomas ii. ii, Whither goe all these men-menders, these physitians? Whose dog lyes sicke o' th mulligrubs? 1678Dryden Limberham iv. i, She is in her mulligrubs already. 1720Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 85 It lulls a wee my mullygrubs, To think upon these bitten scrubs. 1736Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict., The mouldy grubs, tormina ventris. 1789in N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1876) XXX. 47 We had father ― of ― who rolled and bellowed as if he had the ma-lé-grubbles, or, as many thought, as if he were in liquor. 1802G. Colman Br. Grins, Knt. & Friar ii. xxxix, His bowels; Where spasms were..Afflicting him with mulligrubs and colic. 1826Scott Jrnl. 14 Mar., I have scarce stirred to take exercise for four or five days, no wonder I had the mulligrubs. 1827Ibid. 19 Sept., Surely these mulligrubs belong to the mind more than the body. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. viii, Peakyish you feel, don't you, now, with a touch of the mulligrubs in your collywobbles?
†2. In sing. form.
a. Ludicrously applied to a person.
b. A fit of ‘mulligrubs’. Obs. rare.
1633Shirley Gamester iv. i, Command my sword, my lungs, my life, Thou art a puffe, a mulligrube, a Metaphysicall Coxcombe, and I honour you with all my hart. 16..Middleton Father Hubbard's T. Wks. (Dyce) V. 597 Some Londoner's son..that must hear twice a-week from his mother, or else he will be sick..of a university-mulligrub. |