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Example Sentences Including 'lurgy'
A few weeks ago your furry friend was so laid up with the lurgy I was contemplating signing on to the endangered species list.Sun, News of the World (1999)
And, like the said lurgy , it brought on similar feelings of nausea.Independent (1999)
So too, on this last vacation did I surrender to the dreaded lurgy.The Australian (2004)
When the dreaded lurgy Esther Rantzen came on I thought `Goodnight Ada!The Kenneth Williams Diaries
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I believe "Lurgy" first appeared in the UK around 1954 in the radio programme THE GOON SHOW starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
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