collywobbles

1. 1.

   severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea

   Synonymscholera morbus

   Broadergastroenteritis

Other forms of collywobbles

plural

collywobbleses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about collywobbles

What does collywobbles mean?

collywobbles means "severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea".

How many syllables are in collywobbles?

collywobbles has 3 syllables: col-lywob-bles. The stress falls on "col".

What is another word for collywobbles?

Close synonyms include cholera morbus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collywobbles a common word?

collywobbles is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.