COLICKY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colicky mean? 

• COLICKY (adjective)
  The adjective COLICKY has 1 sense:

1. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

  Familiarity information: COLICKY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLICKY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

Synonyms:

colicky; flatulent; gassy

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

Derivation:

colic (acute abdominal pain (especially in infants))

 Context examples 

Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Jennings, though regretting that she had not been five minutes earlier, was satisfied with the compromise; and Elinor, as she swallowed the chief of it, reflected, that though its effects on a colicky gout were, at present, of little importance to her, its healing powers, on a disappointed heart might be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)