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Definition of Lurgies
1. lurgy [n] - See also: lurgy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurgies
Literary usage of Lurgies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne (1907)
"the lurgies." Lest my reader should not be acquainted with this illness, at least
under that name, here is the diagnosis of the ..."
2. Colyn Blowbols Testament: Ein spät-mittelenglisches Gedicht by Colyn Blowbols testament, Friedrich Lehmeyer, Bodleian Library (1907)
"Von den dort angeführten dialektischen Formen dürfte vielleicht fever-lurgy auf
eine hier passende Bedeutung weisen, da lurgies = the blues which come after ..."
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