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Lurgy
/ˈlɜː(ɹ)ɡi/
A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase "the dreaded lurgi", sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms
📖 Definitions of "Lurgy"
noun
- 1
A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase "the dreaded lurgi", sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms
- 2
Any uncategorised disease with symptoms similar to a cold or flu that renders one unable to work.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lurgy"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| lurginoun | (uncommon) Alternative spelling of lurgy. [(UK, Ireland, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.] |
| lurgeenoun | Alternative spelling of lurgy (an illness or ailment) [(UK, Ireland, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.] |
| lurgeynoun | Alternative spelling of lurgy. [(UK, Ireland, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; sometimes as a reference to flu-like symptoms.] |
| loogynoun | (baseball) Lefty one-out guy, or left-handed one-out guy, a left-handed pitcher who specializes in pitching to left-handed batters and rarely faces right-handed batters. |
| slangitisnoun | (rare, humorous) The supposed malady of using slang. |
| ligmanoun | (chiefly Internet, humorous) A fictional ostensible disease coined to sound similar to "lick my balls" (used to trick a person into asking the meaning). |
| lugholenoun | (British, Australia, slang) The human ear. |
| loogienoun | (US, slang) A thick quantity of sputum, usually containing phlegm. |
| lirtnoun | (UK dialectal) Deception; guile. |
| slangerynoun | The use of slang; language containing slang lexis. |
| lollygagnoun | (uncountable, US) Silliness, nonsense. |
| lincturenoun | Any medicine taken by licking with the tongue. |
| l-wordnoun | (euphemistic) The word love. |
| lingonoun | (informal) Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group, field, or region; jargon or a dialect. |
| louping | Alternative form of louping ill. [An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.] |
| louring | The act of one who, or that which, lours. |
| lasknoun | (uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment. |
| lathingnoun | A covering of laths. |
| labrishnoun | (Jamaica, dialect) Gossip, rumor, chatty speaking. |
| lullynoun | (slang, obsolete) A child. |
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