Noun
Physical or mental illness or infirmity.
Usage- Obsolete
- plural
- Plural only
- Examples
-
For in veracity these Times denote Morbs to the Sane, and Obits to th' Ægrote; And alterate the suavest Pulchritude To the Complection of its native Mud.
More examples (1)
[…] and what herbes or plants soever were preservative against the Scotoma, Oedema, Lithiasis, Paralysis, Celphalgia, Lycanthropia; all diseases, Ulcers, Morbs or Contagions wheresoever or howsoever arising […]
One who suffers from melancholia or depression.
Usage- Archaic
- Informal
- plural
- Plural only
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
As a whole, New York audiences are the most responsive because they are made up largely of the happy, care-free transients, the human beings who come to New York to laugh. […] They are not wise as the morbs are, they are just happy, and natural and alive.
A state of melancholy, sadness, ennui.
Usage- Archaic
- Informal
- plural
- Plural only
- with the
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
For whatever reasons, an astonishing assortment of English idioms (some dating to Elizabethan times) existed in the nineteenth century to literally give sorrow words: one spoke of the “blackdogs”, the “blue devils”, the “dismals”, the “dumps”, the “hyps”, the “mopes”, the “morbs”, the “mulligrubs”, the “mumps”, the “wiffle-woffles”, the “woefuls”, the “worrits”, and the “vapors”.
‘Oh Tess,’ giggled Kate, ‘you’re always such a tonic. I’m so glad you’ve come. I’ve got a severe case of the “morbs”.’
Maybe i’m not up to dick today. I think I’ll just absquatulate before I get the morbs. Goodbye old chum.