Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pain in the intestines; colic.
- n. Ill temper; sulkiness; the sulks: as, to have the mulligrubs.
- n. The dobson or hellgrammite.
Wiktionary
- n. colic
- n. sullenness; sulky behaviour
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A griping of the intestines; colic.
- n. Hence, sullenness; the sulks.
Examples
“mulligrubs," all stand out in my memory as tragic, and no doubt prepared me to appreciate tragedy later on as a fine art.”
“Even a rival at the Gold Hill Daily News noticed that this favorite writer is melancholy; he has got the mulligrubs. . .”
“She filled the one brimful for her guest, and the other more modestly to about two-thirds of its capacity, for her own use, repeating, as the rich cordial trickled forth in a smooth oily stream — “Right Rosa Solis, as ever washed mulligrubs out of a moody brain!””
“If Cas could pull out of it and lead a normal, useful life, I certainly should not have had the mulligrubs.”
Time For The Stars
“It is easy enough to say that a pessimist is a person afflicted with an incurable case of mulligrubs -- one whom nothing in all earth or heaven or hades pleases; one who usually deserves nothing, yet grumbles if he gets it.”
“He has the mulligrubs because he cannot plant himself on a Congressional cushion, or because he finds his wife awake and nursing a curtain lecture to keep it warm when he falls through the front fence at 5 o'clock in the morning.”
“The above slug of "taffy" was accompanied by a woodcut portrait of Miss H-- s which made her resemble a half-naked Indian squaw suffering with an acute attack of mulligrubs, superinduced by an overfeed of baked dog.”
“Idleness lies in bed sick of the mulligrubs where industry finds health and wealth.”
Brave Men and Women
“He is in great force now that he has got rid of his Grenoble mulligrubs.”
“See how it creams; don't be snuffy, Molly, none of your mulligrubs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mulligrubs’.
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 159 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 376 more...
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words that just sound funny
maybe it's just me but these words are fun to say or make me laugh or smile
monangahela, sisyphus, schlub, sassafrass, lollapalooza, mulligrubs, hoity-toity, hashmagandy, zenzizenzizenzic, addlepated, nincompoop, brouhaha and 3 more...
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Down in the dumps, feeling blue? Here, then, is a list for you...
feeling blue, down in the dumps, blue devils, mulligrubs, mubblefubbles, melancholy, lugubrious, gloomy gus, eeyore, doleful, woeful, woebegone and 86 more...
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Dialect
ruzuzu "n. The dobson or hellgrammite." --CD&C Feb 29, 2012
jaime_d "You, Ishmail, phthisic pawn, glutton for musty old manuscripts, puny scribbling runt, martyr to a myriad of sulks, doldrums and mulligrubs, you who lit out, packing just a smock, four shirts and a cotton hanky in your bag. . ." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition Aug 11, 2010
jmjarmstrong JM grumps towards the mulligrubs as a career goal. Nov 22, 2009
knitandpurl "The barber chuckled. 'You're a philosopher, sir, a philosopher.'
'I am, but I'm a blue one. I have the blue mulligrubs.'
'The blue mulligrubs?' Cowper said. I think I know them.'"
-- The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch, p 34 Jul 12, 2009
missanthropist "The mulligrubs"= the blues. I should like to know just what one of these dread beasts look like? Jul 15, 2008
she E'er they be grumbly, and e'er they be mumbly.. Jul 11, 2008
trivet She, you know such lovely words for the grumbly mumblies. Jul 11, 2008
she Perhaps it was in tribute to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? (see melancholy, mubblefubbles, blue devils) Jul 11, 2008
bilby There was a band playing tonight at Cantina Roja. I think they were supposed to be called The Misfits but I referred to them as The Mulligrubs. They didn't seem to mind. Jul 11, 2008