Meaning & use
lurgy
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A minor, unspecified illness, especially one treated with humorous exaggeration; used chiefly in British informal speech.
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He's staying home again — apparently he's caught the dreaded lurgy.
Half the office is down with some kind of lurgy this week.
A note on using this word
The word was popularized by the 1950s British radio comedy 'The Goon Show,' which featured a fictional disease called 'the dreaded lurgi.'
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