Mullygrubs

0 'Mulligrubs' seems to be a cousin of 'collywobbles'! They both mean 'colic' or 'stomach ache'.02br
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00A mullygrub or mullygrubber is a cricket term.02br
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00It refers to a ball bowled that is so tragic that it just rolls along the ground.02br
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00The most famous mullygrub ever bowled was by Trevor Chappell against N.Z. in 1981. Google 'underarm bowling'.02br
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00A mullygrub is a ball

My mother used to say this all the time. It means you are going through the "blues" or a short depression.

I presume that Steinbeck meant a feeling of gloominess.
For Australians it means what the person said was the way a ball was bowled in cricket.
However for some of us older folk it means a type of native grub of the bush that live in the ground much like a witchety grub, whereby you can catch them by poking a piece of grass down the hole and waiting for the grub to try to remove it and sw

hey jo

I to have had to read travels with charley and had also had no idea what the meaning of the word mullygrubs is. After googling for a while i found out that it is an old way of saying that "I have a

migrain."

hope this didnt come to late.

Moody, depressed, gloomy, irritable. Love Travels With Charley.

we use the term mully grubs to describe being in a sad, blue, unhappy mood. Not really depressed but just "down in the dumps".

My father used to give me a really good mullyrgubbing when I was little. It consisted of being rolled around on living room floor whilst being tickled into a state of hysteria. He was a cricketer.

Paul J

Hi, Paul J.

I used to get the same treatment from my dad. He even accompanied it with a little rhyme,

”it’s not one rib rub,

its not two rib rubs,

its a mulligrub.”

tickled to a state of hysteria, I’m laughing now 40 years later.