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Meanings of collywobbles in English

Severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea.

Synonyms
Examples for "cholera morbus"
Examples for "cholera morbus"
1
Was it the cholera morbus, that is so prevalent at this season?
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
2
Russia is paralysed by the devastating progress of the cholera morbus which has reached Moscow.
A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II
3
He was often more lengthy and extravagant than Fuseli, and as leaden as cholera morbus.
Promenades of an Impressionist
4
Internally, used for.-Flatulentcolic, diarrhea, cholera morbus, toothache, (oil of cloves).
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
5
This is valuable in cases of dysentery and cholera morbus, particularly when made of old fowls.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepe...
Usage of collywobbles in English
1
We took it out by staring Driggs almost into the collywobbles.
At Good Old Siwash
2
This made Nanny McPhee very thoughtful and cured Mr Edelweiss's collywobbles.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
3
It wasn't his fault that he had a bad attack of collywobbles that night.
Dr Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
4
How we wobble when we have the collywobbles!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5
A very different thing this, I can tell you, from running round dosing people for the collywobbles.
Australia Felix
6
They always give me the collywobbles.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
7
Terrible thing to have the collywobbles!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8
Track three, Who Sees You, finds polyphonic whale-song guitars lying on a bed of collywobbles, as they should.
The Guardian
9
Outside, Mr Edelweiss was in the grip of terrible collywobbles and having a strip torn off him by Nanny McPhee.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
10
At which point they might well have switched over to Fair City, the pundits having given them a dose of the collywobbles.
The Irish Times
11
The collywobbles consumed him again and Coria, as improbably as anything that has happened in a fortnight of upsets, stretched out to a 3-1 lead.
The Guardian
12
-Wemust pack off to Brother Michael because we have the collywobbles!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
13
'You have the collywobbles again, haven't you?' said Nanny McPhee sternly.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
14
It's something to hold onto for Richmond fans, but a shift in this result is going to require a very serious case of the Collywobbles.
The Guardian
15
We took it out by staring Driggs almost into the collywobbles.
At Good Old Siwash
16
This made Nanny McPhee very thoughtful and cured Mr Edelweiss's collywobbles.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
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