mulleygrubs
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mulleygrubs pl (plural only)
- Alternative form of mulligrubs (“low spirits, mild depression, the blues”)
- 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
- " […] the disease is either extinct, or exists in such a mild form that a short course of aperient medicine carries it off. It is sometimes called the Blue-devils now or the Mulleygrubs. Queer names, ain't they?"
- 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
- Alternative form of mulligrubs (“sullenness; sulky behaviour”)