Meaning

(obsolete) Physical or mental illness or infirmity..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Physical or mental illness or infirmity.
2. (archaic, informal) One who suffers from melancholia or depression.
3. (archaic, informal, with the) A state of melancholy, sadness, ennui.

Example Sentences

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.

[…] 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 […]

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.

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.

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