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Collywobbles

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The gripes, usually accompanied with sundry noises in the stomach. These noises are called the “borbarigmus.” (The wobbling caused by a slight colic.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Collar of SS
Collectivists
College (New)
College Colours
College Colours
College Port
Colliberts
Colluthians
Colly my Cow
Collyridians
Collywobbles
Cologne
Colon
Colophon
Coloquintida or Colocynth
Coloquintida (St.)
Colorado (U.S. America)
Colossal
Colossus or Colossos (Latin, Colossus)
Colour
Colour, Colours