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Colicky

adjective
1.
Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal.  Synonyms: flatulent, gassy.





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"Colicky" Quotes from Famous Books



... on feeding as long as it is allowed. The baby does not reason; it has no judgment; it depends upon its mother's judgment. If the mother is false to the trust the baby overloads its stomach. A swollen, distended, overloaded stomach causes indigestion. A baby with indigestion is a colicky, fretty, sick baby. Overfeeding, therefore, is the beginning of lots of trouble to the mother, and needless pain and suffering and sickness to the baby. A simple matter, but it is one of the most difficult lessons nursing ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
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... never had to raise none o' mine by hand since Martin Luther," she remarked. "I've been mighty glad on it, for he was a sight o' trouble. Kinder colicky and weakly. Never done no good till we got him off the bottle. He'd one cow's milk, too, all the time. I was powerful partickerler 'bout that. I'd never have raised him if I hadn't bin. 'N' to this day Martin Luther hain't what 'Poleon and ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Words linked to "Colicky" :   unhealthy, gassy, colic


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