morbsEtymologyPerhaps from morbid, ultimately from Latin morbus (“malady (of body or mind), distress”).morbs means physical or mental illness or infirmity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounPhysical or mental illness or infirmity.“For in veracity these Times denote Morbs to the Sane, and Obits to th' Ægrote; And alterate the suavest Pulchritude To the Complection of its native Mud.”One who suffers from melancholia or depression.“As a whole, New York audiences are the most responsive because they are made up largely of the happy, care-free transients, the human beings who come to New York to laugh. […] They are not wise as the morbs are, they are just happy, and natural and alive.”A state of melancholy, sadness, ennui.“For whatever reasons, an astonishing assortment of English idioms (some dating to Elizabethan times) existed in the nineteenth century to literally give sorrow words: one spoke of the “blackdogs”, the “blue devils”, the “dismals”, the “dumps”, the “hyps”, the “mopes”, the “morbs”, the “mulligrubs”, the “mumps”, the “wiffle-woffles”, the “woefuls”, the “worrits”, and the “vapors”.”