Definitions for lumbago

lumbago lum·ba·go

Spelling: [luhm-bey-goh]
IPA: /lʌmˈbeɪ goʊ/

Lumbago is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 165 anagrams from letters in lumbago (abglmou).

Definitions for lumbago

noun

  1. pain in the lower, or lumbar, region of the back or loins, especially chronic or recurring pain.

Origin of lumbago

1685-95; Late Latin, equivalent to Latin lumb(us) loin + -āgō noun suffix

Examples for lumbago

lumbago seems to make a body garrulous—but you'll forgive it.

I chuckled over your gaiety, but it gave me lumbago to try to be gay with you.

A Gentleman afflicted with lumbago was advised to bathe in the Serpentine in winter.

So when asked to strip and to state what my claim was based on I said lumbago.

The doctor can't come, for he is down with lumbago in the back.

Well, the dignity didn't work, so he commenced on the lumbago; and that didn't work, neither.

An' the rain were that bad, it give me lumbago all down my back, that did.

Besides, do you want to give that chair spinal meningitis or lumbago?

The senior Turkish doctor never glanced at my lumbago region at all.

One is grateful for mercies, but does not groan over them like rheumatism or the lumbago.'

Word Value for lumbago
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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