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lurgy

British

/ ˈlɜːɡɪ /

noun

facetious any undetermined illness

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Etymology

Origin of lurgy

C20: origin unknown

Example Sentences

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An unexpected delivery of home testing kits arrives in our Clinical Research Facility and my colleague Dinesh Saralaya and I decide to take the plunge and find out if we have had the lurgy.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2020

And if I am horribly infectious but not feeling too bad, perhaps I should be kind to myself - and everybody around me - by working from home until the lurgy blows over.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2020

More demanding Lady Killer songs such as It's OK and Old Fashioned are missing – perhaps victim to the lurgy, but the trooper isn't going to leave his two best-loved party stonkers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011

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