mulleygrubs
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of mulligrubs (“low spirits, mild depression, the blues”).
noun
Alternative form of mulligrubs (“sullenness; sulky behaviour”).
Example Sentences
- "" […] 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.)"