A stomach ache or an upset stomach.
Petunia’s off school today with a touch of the collywobbles.
Anxiety, fear, uneasiness.
I don’t like walking through the forest at night. It gives me the collywobbles.
Probably from colic (“severe pains that grip the abdomen”) + wobble (“unsteady motion”). Alternatively, it has been suggested that the word derives from colly (“coal dust”) (in the sense of someone be...
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