collywobbles
\KOL-ee-wob-uhlz\
noun
1. Informal. a feeling of fear, apprehension, or nervousness.
2. Informal. intestinal cramps or other intestinal disturbances.
Quotes
We must pack off to Brother Michael because we have the collywobbles!
-- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916
Origin
Collywobbles came to English in the early 1800s and is presumably based on the term colic meaning "a sudden pain in the abdomen or bowels."
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