Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal Pain in the stomach or bowels.
Wiktionary
- n. stomachache
- n. anxiety, fear
WordNet 3.0
- n. severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea
Etymologies
- Probably alteration (influenced by colic and wobble) of cholera morbus.
Examples
“No, having "collywobbles" does not mean you're addicted to cauliflower, and don't bother buying a bra if you're a "titulaire.”
“In New Zealand, if you've got "collywobbles" before a big game, you:”
“Here's Iran, causing collywobbles wherever summits convene; here's Iraq, a profoundly unsettled state; and Nato's Afghanistan, a disaster without end.”
“Nineties collywobbles are one thing, fifties and sixties somewhat different. 15 fifties, Duncan, and two centuries.”
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“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The tanks on Satmasjid Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The tanks seem to have given the mutineers the collywobbles: they finally handed in their weapons and gave in.”
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“The tanks seem to have given the mutineers the collywobbles: they finally handed in their weapons and gave in.”
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The tanks on Satmasjid Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh
“There was some kind of psionic field which did not register on McCoy's scanners, but gave him the personal collywobbles.”
“It gave the professor, who was, as we have already established, not an imaginative man, a distinct case of the collywobbles.”
“I get the collywobbles just thinking about a hardback mixed in with a paperback!”
“At one moment, the world's my oyster, at the next, I have a real fit of the collywobbles.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘collywobbles’.
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Serious words that sound silly when you say them
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squally, monetization, honorificabilitud..., hornswoggle, collywobbles, slangwhanger, filibuster, cliona, beknow, gallimaufry, sylvan, aide-de-camp and 31 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
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trivet I feel a list coming on... Sep 23, 2007
reesetee Around here, that feeling is also called "the creeps." :-) Sep 23, 2007
uselessness A feeling of unease of dread. See also: willies, heebie-jeebies. Sep 23, 2007