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collywobbles
noun
an unsettled condition of the stomach UK, 1823
Derives from the conventional senses of “colic” and “wobble”.- Have you got the collywobbles or something? You feeling a bit peaky? — Peter Cook, Not Only But Also, 1970
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi–Yankee Dictionary, p. 27, 1984
- The name will mean nothing but it’s enough to induce serious collywobbles in the fashion world for Carine [Roitfield] is the most stingingly hip of stylists and editor of French Vogue. — Guardian, 30 March 2001
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