lurgy

A general understanding of metal- lurgy is part of gunsmithing, I'm sure.

Two rivers flow through the village, the Lennon and the Lurgy.

Chile backed off him like he had the lurgy, and allowed him to run all the way to the edge of the area.

The Lurgy runs through Termon.

He was born in Lurgy, County Tyrone, Ireland.

Generally speaking, I think smartphones are stupid, gadgets are gewgaws, and laptops are lurgy.

The descriptions of the Boil Lurgy and the Flea Buboes made his skin crawl.

The Lurgy is a (real) small river near Kilmacrennan in Donegal in Ireland.

Williams' wife Jane claims her husband was suffering from "Chinese lurgy" after an exhausting 10-day trip to Korea and China.

Kilmacrennan also has a soccer team called Kilmacrennan Celtic, formally known as Lurgy Celtic.

Their report shows that you're most likely to fall ill visiting Egypt, Gambia, Turkey and Latin America, while 18 per cent of Spanish holiday-makers suffer from some kind of lurgy.

In the episode "Lurgi Strikes Britain", Spike Milligan introduced the fictional malady of Lurgi, (sometimes spelled Lurgy) which has survived into modern usage to mean any miscellaneous or non-specific illness.

Weeps too, as I do, for women lost to our family lurgy - breast cancer - my mother aged fifty three when I was twenty three, my twin sister aged fifty one when I was.

Soon after the Party, Luna was the commentator at a Quidditch match, in which she went off on side topics by saying that the player Smith suffered from Losers Lurgy and she also pointed out oddly shaped clouds, and often forgot players names.

My sister, newly arrived from France with her two children, may have spent the entire festive season holed up in our spare room with the norovirus, rallying on Christmas Eve just long enough to pass the lurgy on to our three-year-old, buy wrapping paper and have her handbag stolen.

The company was lampooned by The Goon Show as "Goosy and Borks" in their episode, "Lurgy Strikes Britain", as well as by musical parodist Peter Schickele who named one of the friends of fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach Jonathan "Boozey" Hawkes.