#collywobbles
Victorian Emoticons
#19thC
Queen's faces: flummoxed, poppycock, podsnappery, joy-trotty, collywobbles, gigglemug
March 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
These ones don't sting. These ones do. They both give me the collywobbles.
July 31, 2026 at 3:53 AM
i think he's got the collywobbles
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Collywobbles [KOL-ee-wah-buls]
(n.)
-Stomach pain or queasiness associated with looseness of the bowels.

Used in a sentence:
“Half the parish came down with spumiferous collywobbles after sampling Aunt Gertrude’s gelatinous aspic tart — it was likely the anchovies that had gone a trifle off.”
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Chaucer hath þe collywobbles
July 19, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Goodnight from DS Nokes, fearlessly crossing that bit of haunted corridor at Police Headquarters which gives even DI Callaghan the collywobbles. Goodnight from the Crayford family, hiding in the hayloft as the Pale Children creep around their farm. Goodnight from Hookland.
May 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
An anti-collywobbles ponder
Lady Luna, please help me feel more confident in myself 😣
March 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Seven names for ailments / illnesses in the Victorian era…

7. The collywobbles (upset tummy)
6. A queer cog (a rotten tooth)
5. The horrors (depression)
4. Dropsy (oedema)
3. Strangery (rupture)
2. Scrivener’s palsy (writer’s cramp)
1. The unpleasantness (nothing good)
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Collywobbles and Dropsy are wonderful names for a little boy and girl.
Seven names for ailments / illnesses in the Victorian era…

7. The collywobbles (upset tummy)
6. A queer cog (a rotten tooth)
5. The horrors (depression)
4. Dropsy (oedema)
3. Strangery (rupture)
2. Scrivener’s palsy (writer’s cramp)
1. The unpleasantness (nothing good)
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You can call me odd, but I don't like walking an alley unless it's wide or got a good passing place. The problem with narrow alleys is you end up walking through ghosts and that gives me the collywobbles. Plays havoc with my sinuses as well. – Maureen Rowley #VOH #Ghosts
July 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Relax friends. The collywobbles are not contagious.
November 8, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Collywobbles. Pirate Software Ltd, 1987.
March 1, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
October 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Snapped Ankles. Gives me the collywobbles.
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Good morning everyone. Had the collywobbles for a moment there! Have a marvellous Monday, all 🙂

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December 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Got those Kickstarter collywobbles, but this is going well!
January 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Neither Churchill nor FDR got the collywobbles when Mussolini was strung up by his heels, so I'm not sure why all these decent CEOs are feeling threatened.
December 8, 2024 at 1:42 AM
A list of names for ailments/illnesses in the Victorian era…

The collywobbles = upset tummy
A queer cog = a rotten tooth
The horrors = depression
Dropsy = oedema
Strangery = rupture
A churchyard cough = one likely to be fatal
Scrivener’s palsy = writer’s cramp
The unpleasantness = nothing good
December 20, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Do you know what’s good? The word ‘collywobbles’.
May 3, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Dad’s home from work. Who wants to sit on his lap?
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM