Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for January 03, 2025

[bro] heh heh im sick

Just the sound of the word makes my tummy hurt.

collywobbles: noun plural 1 Pain in the stomach or bowels.

noun 1 Anxiety, fear.

2 Severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea.

The answer to the question, “What was the veterinarian’s diagnosis when Lassie developed a tremor?”

I shall have to find a way to work that into conversation with my youngest daughter. It will be worth it just to see the look on her face.

Collywobbles, bings and bobbles, folly fobbles, rings and robbles all bring Collywobbles!

Funny word, but not a fun word..

A neologism is a new word that is coined especially by a person affected with schizophrenia and is meaningless except to the coiner.

Sounds like a pain…

What happens when Irish actor Farrrell drinks too much??

I also get the giggles if I hear the words,’ Wobbly Bits’, said with a British accent!

Collywobbles.

My fave is higgledy-piggledy. Hard to work into conversations, though.

This is actually me in elementary school.

Spud is the poster child for collywobbles.

Not last night but the night before,

Collywobbles, collywobbles,

Knockin’ at my door!

(To paraphrase the great Stephen King)

One of my favorites is “borborygmus”. A rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines.

Love the art here – the hilarious face Wallace makes while saying Collywobbles, and the implied motion of him climbing back down from his desktop and into his seat. Simple but genius.

Could’ve been way worse. For example, if it had been Amelia doing this, we all know what word she would’ve said. ;)

Oh, if I had been bold, I might have done something just like that. I did do something similar at home.

At least he did not follow up on yesterday’s ask me how loud I can be!!!!!

Collywobbles was first recorded around 1815-25. Collywobbles is most likely a coinage based on the words colic and wobble. Wobble comes from Low German wabbeln, which is akin to Middle High German wabelen, “to waver.” Colic comes from Middle French colique, from Latin colica (passiō), “(suffering) of the colon.”Aug 23, 2023

How bout “willywobbles”??

Oh man, we’ve been reading P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series with our kids the past few months – the old British slang that we’re learning is just hilarious!

what a bumfuzzle

He’ll probably follow that up with a Good Farrrt

It’s an excellent word!

It’s not supercalifragalisticexpialidocious but it ain’t bad…..

I wonder if the cartoonist is trying to get featured on CSOTD.

Not to be confused with the heebie-jeebies.

Great thing to yell when you stub your toe. toe hits wall “Collywabbles!”

Mr Weasley’s nickname for Mrs Weasley was “Mollywobbles.”

You can’t hit it out of the park every time and sometimes you can’t get it out of the infield.

“Collywobbles doodle all the day!”

(Let’s see how long it takes anyone to correct that!)

Is it etymologically related to “Zamwopples”?

That was quite a word. Would it have greater funniness with other comedy words like “weasel”?

Oh, hey, I experience collywobbles daily. That’s more fun to say than Crohn’s, I suppose =P

Seagull??

Hahaha! I will use it from now on.

He also kept his word by saying literally just one word. Every time someone says to me, ‘can I have a word with you’, I’m usually in for a tirade.

8^)