Tag: Egypt

‘Pharaoh’s Revenge’: meaning and origin

.Reading time 9 minutes.

diarrhoea suffered by travellers, especially in Egypt—USA, 1973—does not seem to have been coined after the synonymous ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’—may somehow allude to the legendary curse of the pharaohs

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‘gyppy tummy’: meaning and origin

.Reading time 13 minutes.

diarrhoea suffered by travellers, especially in Egypt—1915, British Army—the word ‘gyppy’ is from ‘gyp’ in ‘Egyptian’, and the suffix ‘-y’, used to form familiar diminutives

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