Meanings
mulleygrubs1
nounmulleygrubs pl (plural only)
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of mulligrubs (“low spirits, mild depression, the blues”).
" […] 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.) - alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of mulligrubs (“sullenness; sulky behaviour”).
Mulleygrubs2
nounMulleygrubs pl (plural only)
- obsoletepluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of mulleygrubs.
1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
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