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  • noun Plural form of lurgy.

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Examples

  • Plans that are afoot can sometimes trip over those afeet, right enough, so as it was the first stop on the itinerary -- Brighton -- fell through, with a text message on my arrival at Paddington, talking of dreaded lurgies and quarantine situations.

    Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Brighton Go Boom Hal Duncan 2010

  • Plans that are afoot can sometimes trip over those afeet, right enough, so as it was the first stop on the itinerary -- Brighton -- fell through, with a text message on my arrival at Paddington, talking of dreaded lurgies and quarantine situations.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • And I hope all your bruises and the various lurgies clear up soon.

    Back again. Spinningfishwife 2009

  • These approaches always seem to fend off the most virile of "con lurgies" and leave you feeling a lot better than if you hadn't taken the precautions.

    Who put the cotton wool in my head? DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • Lest my reader should not be acquainted with this illness, at least under that name, here is the diagnosis of the lurgies as given by a very ordinary seaman to the ship's doctor.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • The coolie, drawn from his native village reluctant, like a periwinkle from its shell, is never a good starter, and when he finds himself at the end of a tow-rope or bowed beneath half a hundredweight of the sahib's trinkets, with a three-thousand-feet pass to attain in front of him, he is extremely apt to burst into tears -- idle tears -- or be overcome by a fit of that fell disease -- "the lurgies."

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

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