Corporal Forbes

English

Etymology

A play on cholera morbus.

Proper noun

Corporal Forbes

(military, slang, archaic) gastroenteritis

References

Henry Yule, Arthur Burnell (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases

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