" [Esme Nicholl] 'Morbs, Mabel? What does it mean?'

[Mabel O'Shaughnessy] 'It's a sadness that comes and goes... I get the morbs, you get the morbs, even Miss Lizzie 'ere gets the morbs, though she'd never let on. A woman's lot, I reckon.'

'It must derive from morbid,' I said to myself....

'I reckon it derives from grief,' said Mabel. 'From what we've lost and what we've never 'ad and never will. As I said, a woman's lot.... "

― Pip Williams , The Dictionary of Lost Words