a. Also (erron.) cholicky. [f. COLIC + -Y; for the spelling with ck see C.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of colic.
1742. Lond. & Country Brewer, I. (ed. 4), 15. The scorbutic, colicy, hypochondriac, and other ill Effects.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xxxv. 256. A colicky disorder, to which she is too subject.
1796. Jane Austen, Sense & Sens. (1849), 147. A touch of his old cholicky gout.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 43. Colicky pains.
2. Producing or tending to produce colic.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 356. The cholicky vegetables.
1876. R. F. Burton, Gorilla L., I. 12. Drinking absinthe and colicky vermouth.
