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Mar. 16, 2015

collywobbles \KOL-ee-wob-uhlz\ noun 1. Informal. a feeling of fear, apprehension, or nervousness. 2. Informal. intestinal cramps or other intestinal disturbances. Quotes We must pack off to Brother Michael because we have the collywobbles! -- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916 Origin Collywobbles came to English in the early 1800s and is presumably based on the term colic meaning "a sudden pain in the abdomen or bowels."

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