lurgy

Origin: The is derived from fever-lurgy, possibly influenced by or related to lurk. Fever-lurgy is possibly a variant of fever lurden, from fever + lurden, lurdane. Lurden, lurdane is derived from , from , lourdin, from lourd, lourt, lorz (modern ) + -in; and lourd from , lurdus, probably from , possibly from lūror (possibly ultimately from ) + -idus. (“non-specific disease”) was popularized by the British radio comedy show The Goon Show (first broadcast 1951–1960), especially the episode “Lurgi Strikes Britain” (series 5, episode 7; 9 November 1954) written by the Anglo-Irish comedian Spike Millig. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).