Moctezuma's revenge

English

Noun

Moctezuma's revenge (uncountable)

1. (humorous) Alternative form of Montezuma's revenge.
   • 2010, George Ann Huck, Jann E. Freed, Women of Yucatán: Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18:

     We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge.

   • 2014, M. I. Lastman, “Answers”, in Rocky Mountain Locust: Opus I, Trio: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, part 1 (Jim), page 32:

     When we were together in Mexico in the early seventies, she came down with a bad case of Moctezuma's revenge, complaining that she'd never been sick to her stomach before.