biliaries

English

Noun

biliaries pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic) A stomachache.
    • 1874, Punch, Or, The London Charivari (volume 67, page 75)
      Mistresses free of Arts, / Bachelors help with hearts, / And well-planned dinner-cartes / As their auxiliaries,— / Such water privilege / In this dead level age, / Might each blue devil edge / Out of one's biliaries!
    • 1895, Frank Barrett, A Set of Rogues (page 247)
      […] the prudent housekeeper […] tells how her mistress has lain abed since dinner, and is sick of the biliaries.
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