http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#878166Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:13:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:878166Anonymous0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#878166http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-878166.xmlhey jo I to have had to read travels with charley and had also had no idea what the meaning of the word mullygrubs is. After googling for a while i found out that it is an old way of saying that &quot;I have a migrain.&quot; hope this didnt come to late.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#544306Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:46:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:544306Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#544306http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-544306.xmlI presume that Steinbeck meant a feeling of gloominess. For Australians it means what the person said was the way a ball was bowled in cricket. However for some of us older folk it means a type of native grub of the bush that live in the ground much like a witchety grub, whereby you can catch them by poking a piece of grass down the hole and waiting for the grub to try to remove it and swiftly extracting the grass blade so as to &#39;catch&#39; the mullygrub on the end. Hours were spent like that when waiting for parents and to kill time.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#471541Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:46:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:471541Anonymous2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#471541http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-471541.xmlMy mother used to say this all the time. It means you are going through the "blues" or a short depression.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#357218Fri, 22 May 2009 11:46:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:357218Stannum3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#357218http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-357218.xmlG'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. Stannumhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#357153Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:46:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:357153Conchita574http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htm#357153http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-357153.xml'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.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htmWed, 22 Apr 2009 11:46:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:357131Anonymous5http://www.englishforums.com/English/Mullygrubs/vvlmm/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-357131.xmlHi, 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