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Date "COLLYWOBBLES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Collywobbles The grips, usually accompanied with sundry noises in the stomach. These noises are called the "borbarigmus." (The wobbling caused by a slight colic.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "COLLYWOBBLES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COLLYWOBBLES" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "COLLYWOBBLES": have collywobbles ♦ have the collywobbles. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "COLLYWOBBLES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ألم في المعدة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свиване на стомаха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | avoir la frousse (have collywobbles). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόψιμο στο στομάχι, τρεμούλα (dither, jitters, tremble, trepidation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hascsikarás (gripes, griping pain, griping pains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollywobblescay chiorãit (rumble, rumbling). (various references) урчание в животе. (various references) magknip (bellyache, gripe, stomach ache, tummy ache), kurrande i magen. (various references) mide ağrısı (stomachache, tummy ache), karın ağrısı (bellyache, gastralgia, stomachache, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"COLLYWOBBLES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: collywobble, Gollywobbler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-l-l-l-o-o-s-w-y" | |
-4 letters: bellboys, cowbells, sowbelly. | |
-5 letters: bellboy, bellows, blowbys, closely, cobbles, cobwebs, cowbell, cowboys, loosely, lowboys, wobbles, yellows, yobboes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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