Crossword-Solution: COLIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colic | n. | A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. |
| Colic | a. | Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. |
| Colic | a. | Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with COLIC (5)
Immediately a place Before his eyes appeard, sad, noysom, dark, A Lazar-house it seemd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseas’d, all maladies Of gastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie, all feavorous kinds, Convulsions, Epilepsies, fierce Catarrhs, Intestin Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs, Dropsies, and Asthma’s, and Joint-racking Rheums.
When anything comes up he always says, ‘I wonder what the Bergsons are going to do about that? I guess I’ll go and ask her.’ I’ll never forget that time, when we first came here, and our horse had the colic, and I ran over to your place—your father was away, and you came home with me and showed father how to let the wind out of the horse.
Besides, those of thy tribe give nothing for nothing; something there must be paid for their use.” The Jew twisted himself in the saddle, like a man in a fit of the colic; but his better feelings predominated over those which were most familiar to him.
Leave scowls and fury to the dark-browed, who can use them without wrying their faces like a three months' baby with the colic.
When I asked for some parting medical instructions, he replied: "Feed a cowld and hunger a colic and put nae faith in doctors." With that advice, and a few bottles of cod-liver oil we are left to our own devices.
Quotes with COLIC (2)
Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.
I worked for Miss Margaret thirty-eight years. She had her a baby girl with the colic and the only thing that stopped the hurting was to hold her. So I made me a wrap. I tied her up on my waist, toted her around all day with me for a entire year. That baby like to break my back. Put ice packs on it ever night and still do. But I loved that girl. And I loved Miss Margaret. Miss Margaret always made me put my hair up in a rag, say she know coloreds don't wash their hair. Counte…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 144 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).