mulligrubs

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To keep down the mulligrubs, burst ye!

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  1. A pain in the intestines; colic. [Slang.] Doctors for diseases of wind and doctors for diseases of water, doctors for mulligrubs and doctors for “miseries.” The Atlantic, XXI. 268.
  2. Ill temper; sulkiness; the sulks: as, to have the mulligrubs. [Slang.]
  3. The dobson or hellgrammite. [Local, U. S.]

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  1. Formerly also mulliegrums; apparently a slang term, and perhaps as such of no definite origin.
 

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