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Definition cough

Etymology

From Middle English coughen, coghen, from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”). Cognate with Dutch kuchen (“to cough”), German keuchen (“to pant”), Albanian hukat (“pant, gasp”).

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

  1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
  2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
  3. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

Noun

cough (plural coughs)

Examples
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  1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
  2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
  3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame

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CHOUGH 16
CLOUGH 15
COUGHS 14
GAUCHO 14
GROUCH 14
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CHUG 12
OUCH 10
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COG 8
HOG 7
HUG 8
UGH 8
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GO 4
HO 4
OH 4
UH 5

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