From Jeffrey Kacirk's "Forgotten English" calendar this year:
The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch.
-- James Hallwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provicial Words (1855)
What a wonderful word. (And, no, there's no particular meaning to my choosing it today. :-) )
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Um, what's a womblety that it's been cut off?
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