colicky

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“
_) Aye, but that was mere women's matters, weevil in the pine nuts, a love-charm or a colicky child.

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  1. Pertaining to or of the nature of colic: as, colicky pains.
  2. Affected with colic; subject to colic: as, a colicky baby. [Colloquial]

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  • I couldna sleep nights for the colicky pain of it. —  Ruined City by Nevil Shute
  • Just as well they hadn't been left to graze their fill in the orchard; they'd be colicky, or drunk, or both, and nursing a drunk horse was not Glory's idea of a good time. —  The Warslayer
  • Our daughter was extremely colicky, so she got used to being held, swaddled and cuddled a lot. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Three and a half years later, the entire nation is colicky - nauseated by the policies and conduct of a regime that, to put it in the parlance of old-school Boston political insults, is so crooked it could hide behind a corkscrew. —  Barry Crimmins : Political Satirist:
  • It is at first colicky, but soon becomes continuous and very intense, vomiting soon follows and is constant and very distressing. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
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