A type of severe hangover brought on by the overzealous consumption of grog and characterized by the onset of vomiting, chills and other flu-like symptoms.
Having polished off the better part of fifth of Bacardi 151 the previous night, Jack awoke with a hideous case of ginfluenza: trembling and feverish and lying in a miasma of puke, shit and piss that may or may not have been of his own excretion.
by kemibe February 25, 2013