colicky
adjective
colĀ·icky
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Definition of colicky
1
: relating to or associated with colic
colicky pain
2
: suffering from colic
colicky babies
Examples of colicky in a Sentence
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My second daughter was a colicky, restless baby whose only relief came from being bounced on a big plastic exercise ball. — Erin Zimmerman, The Cut, "The Identity Transformation of Becoming a Mom," 25 May 2018 The second of my four children was very colicky: swaddling, sucking and swaying helped a lot and got us through that first year of her life. — Philly.com, "The problem with Harvey Karp's $1,160 bassinet," 26 Apr. 2018 In one, OāFarrell sits in a rental car on the side of a remote road in rural France, trying to nurse her colicky son. — Laurie Hertzel, Detroit Free Press, "Books: āI Amā recounts authorās 17 brushes with death," 17 Feb. 2018 The two women met by chance in a Starbucks last year, bonding over their colicky babies. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, "Laura Benanti Sings With Her Daughter, When Sheās Not Impersonating Melania Trump," 16 Feb. 2018 Difficult childbirth, preterm infants, colicky babies, babies that wonāt sleep or even postpartum depression and demanding toddlers can have an impact on your motivation, energy and ability to schedule exercise into your day. — Pamela Hannen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Your post-pregnancy body image: 5 things to keep in mind," 1 Sep. 2017 A wee lad named Bertie has a miserable shrew of a mother, a pathetic philanderer of a father and a colicky infant of a brother. — Bethanne Patrick, The Denver Post, "A Scottish boy needs all the moral support he can get in āThe Bertie Projectā," 24 Feb. 2017 Knottās colicky poems assume the readerās malign intentions, imagining the page as a place of conflict or, at best, of fraying truce. — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, "Bill Knottās Anti-Career of Guerrilla Poetry," 24 Mar. 2017 By the way, colicky newborn keeping you up all night? — Michael Venables, WIRED, "Kinder, Gentler Pirates with Social Values? Today is the Launch of Disney Junior," 15 Feb. 2011These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'colicky.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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