Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of colic: as, colicky pains.
- Affected with colic; subject to colic: as, a colicky baby.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; ; a
colicky baby.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or suffering from
colic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
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Examples
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One, my first baby: he was "colicky," as they say.
the things you plan for jlundberg 2010
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I was on soy formula from 2 months old - I would throw up and then sleep for a very long time, but I guess that was preferred over being "colicky" when was given dairy formula when I would throw up but stay awake and cry.
LAST VEGAN MOFO POST! A SOY-FREE VERSION OF MY "SOY AND SEITAN TURKEY" Bryanna Clark Grogan 2008
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The new baby is extremely colicky which is making things more stressful and exhausting than they could have been, but these things happen.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003
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"a common rule of thumb is to consider a baby" colicky "if he or she cries intensely more than three days a week, for more than three hours, for more than three weeks in a month."
Gorillabuns 2009
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Payback's a bitch ... this is what I get for being a colicky baby.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith: Graceful Aging: No Such Thing Dr. Sasha Galbraith 2010
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My 2nd child was very colicky in the evenings for the first 6-8 weeks and we tried lots of things but gripe water, an herbal remedy, seemed to help the most.
Growing like a weed 2009
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The smallest and least civilized townsfolk are the most distraught: the babies, all of them, even the easy ones, are confounding their mothers with uncharacteristic, colicky behavior.
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A colicky baby, he was kept on a rigid four-hour feeding schedule, and was not touched unless necessary and was never cuddled or played with.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Payback's a bitch ... this is what I get for being a colicky baby.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith: Graceful Aging: No Such Thing Dr. Sasha Galbraith 2010
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Payback's a bitch ... this is what I get for being a colicky baby.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith: Graceful Aging: No Such Thing Dr. Sasha Galbraith 2010
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