collywobbles

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The Word of the Day for April 9 is:

collywobbles   \KAH-lee-wah-bulz\   noun
     : bellyache

Example sentence:
     Children who eat too much candy are likely to end up with 
the collywobbles.

Did you know? 
     We don't know who first clutched his or her tummy and 
called the affliction "collywobbles," but we do know the word's 
earliest print appearance dates from around 1823. We also know 
that the word probably came about through a process called "folk 
etymology." In that process, unusual words are transformed to 
make them look or sound like other, more familiar words. The 
theory goes that "collywobbles" may have originated 
when "cholera morbus" (the New Latin term for the disease 
cholera) was influenced by words like "colic" and "wobble" and 
transformed into a term that sounded friendlier and more common 
to English ears.