Mullygrubs

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Anonymous  #357131  Sat, 28 Apr 07 06:18 PM
Hi,
could someone explain to me the meaning of this "mullygrubs" I have found reading Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"?:
'We'd be lousy esplorers. A few days out and we get the mullygrubs.'

Thanks in advance, Jo
  
Conchita57  #357153  Sat, 28 Apr 07 07:45 PM
'Mulligrubs' seems to be a cousin of 'collywobbles'!  They both mean 'colic' or 'stomach ache'.

Here is an interesting explanation:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-mul1.htm




  
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Stannum  #357218  Sat, 28 Apr 07 11:34 PM

G'day Anon,

A mullygrub or mullygrubber is a cricket term.

It refers to a ball bowled that is so tragic that it just rolls along the ground.

The most famous mullygrub ever bowled was by Trevor Chappell against N.Z. in 1981.  Google 'underarm bowling'.

A mullygrub is a ball that is rolled along the ground so that the batsman can not score more than one run.  It is a sign of a defeated bowler bereft of ideas and resorting to any method to win with no consideration given to the long term ramifications of the actions.

Mully is a variant of muley which refers to cattle with no horns.  This shows the lack of danger in the mulligrubber.  It is just a 'blah' ball.

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Anonymous  #471541  Fri, 01 Feb 08 04:39 PM
My mother used to say this all the time.  It means you are going through the "blues" or a short depression.
  
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