collywobbles

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒlɪwɒb(ə)lz/    美 /ˈkɑliˌwɑb(ə)lz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stomach ache or an upset stomach. UK,humorous,informal,plural,plural-only
    — Petunia’s off school today with a touch of the collywobbles.
  2. Anxiety, fear, uneasiness. UK,broadly,humorous,informal,plural
    — I don’t like walking through the forest at night. It gives me the collywobbles.

词形变化

the collywobbles canonical,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
collywobbled

词源

Probably from colic (“severe pains that grip the abdomen”) + wobble (“unsteady motion”). Alternatively, it has been suggested that the word derives from colly (“coal dust”) (in the sense of someone becoming ill from breathing in such dust), or that it is a corruption of cholera.
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