Lurgy
approximate british equivalent of the american playground term cooties, meaning a fict-tious, yet highly infectious disease. unlike cooties, now used by adults to refer to an general undefined infectious malady.
normally used in the form “the dreaded lurgy”.
the term originates from an episode of the 1950s radio comedy “the goon show” in which an epidemic of “the dreaded lurgi” was said to be about to sweep across britain. it turned out that the lurgi was in fact a ficitious disease created by br-ss instrument makers who had claimed that no br-ss band player had ever died of the lurgi (thereby increasing sales hugely).
“the goon show” was an anarchic and surreal radio comedy series that starred peter sellers, spike milligan and harry secombe. it was written by spike milligan and eric sykes.
i think i’ve got the dreaded lurgy.
he’s not coming into work today, apparently he’s coming down with a lurgy.
i’m not quite sure what’s wrong. just some form of lurgy.
urgh. you’ve got the lurgy!
british slang for feeling like sh-t.
man, i have this really bad stomach lurgy.
an illness that is not serious but p-sses easily from person to person.
my throat is sore and my head hurts. i think i’ve caught the dreaded lurgy.
imaginary germ believed by primary school children. usualy used in games like tag.
-girl toutches/tags boy-
boy- “eeeeew! lurgies!”
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