Cough

Definition: Cough

Cough

Noun

1. Sudden expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis.

2. The act of exhaling air suddenly with a noise.

Verb

1. Exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; "The smoker coughs all day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cough" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Cough \Cough\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Coughed; Coughing.]. (Websters 1913)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Cough

Disease

Fatal disease; (hopeless); dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Payment

Pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; cough up, fork over; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down.

Wind

Respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.

Crosswords: Cough

Shall I cough on you, George? (Outbreak; writing credit: Laurence Dworet; Robert Roy Pool)

Oy, I think I'm gonna cough up a furball. (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Cough up a buck you cheap bastard. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

You like video games teeny-boppers? Your mommy give you quarters for video games? Well cough 'em up. (The Toxic Avenger; writing credit: Lloyd Kaufman; Joe Ritter)

Stan, you need to lay off the cough syrup, alright, seriously. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)

I hope those cigarettes gonna make you cough (Little Miss Can't Be Wrong; performing artist: Spin Doctors)

He starts to shake and cough (Don't Stand So Close To Me; performing artist: The Police)

Put your hand on your mouth when you cough, that'll help the solution ("Respect Yourself"; performing artist: The Staple Singers)

On Boot's Children Cough Medicine: "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication. (references; author: unknown)

Tommy and the Whooping Cough (1912)

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References

• The 2001 Report on Cough and Cold Remedies: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Cough and Cold Remedies: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Cough and Cold Remedies in Asia (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Cough, Cold, Allergy and Hay Fever Remedies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Child-Specific Cough, Cold and Allergy Remedies [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Cough (reference)

• Cough and Throat Remedies [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• OTC cough and cold remedies in Japan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Cough and Cold Remedies [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cough It Up: the Hairball Story (reference)

• French Cough Syrup (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Legionnaire's disease is an acute and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. Headache, high fever, cough, and flu-like symptoms accompany the condition. Credit: CDC.

M. tuberculosis bacteria can attack any part of the body, but usually the lungs causing Tuberculosis. It is spread when infected individuals cough or sneeze, releasing microdroplets into the air that contain the bacteria, which others then inhale. Credit: CDC.

When coupled with malnutrition ... whooping cough is still one of the killer diseases. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by L. Matlovski..

Dr. Kilmer's Indian Cough Cure Consumption Oil. / J. Ottmann. Lith. Puck Bldg., N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Rich and Poor Use. : Porter's Cough Balsam. / C. Hart Lith. 36 Vesey St. N.Y. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

While You Make Up Your Mind About Whooping Cough Vaccination, Thousands Of Children Are Holding Their Breath : There's An Epidemic. Get Your Child Vaccinated Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Whooping Cough Is Back!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Thorn's Vegetable Cough Cure. / Bufford. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A.H. Woods presents Valeska Suratt in the swift, smart & saucy play, The girl with the whooping cough the latest Paris sensation : by Stanislaus Stange. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Better wait an hour or two, or even half a day for your letters, than run the risk of bringing on your cough again.

The cough did not leave her, and she had night sweats.

He thrust forward his under jaw and uttered a dry short cough.

The battery turned the sodden motor more and more slowly, and there was no cough.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A severe cough or sore throat. (references)

Then a chronic cough develops with clear, colorless sputum. (references)

In humans, fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, and a dry cough. (references)

Business

Most of the DM 8.2 billion (USD 4.4 billion) spent on OTC drugs went for cough and cold medicines (DM 1.6 billion; USD 0.9 billion); followed by gastro-intestinal medication (DM 1 billion; USD 0.5 billion); analgesics (DM 941 million; USD 509 million); vitamins and minerals (DM 758 million; USD 410 million) and wound-healing preparations (DM 586 million; USD 317 million). (references)

Economic History

Trinidad

U.S. brands hold one third of the large market for cough and cold remedies and antacids. (references)

Ireland

Self-medication remains an important part of the total Irish market for pharmaceutical products and can be divided up into the following sub-sectors: analgesics - 26 per cent, cough and cold treatments - 25 per cent, vitamins - 18 per cent, skin treatment -16 per cent and digestive & intestinal remedies -15 per cent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cough": Chin cough ♦ cough and die ♦ cough blood ♦ cough down ♦ cough drop ♦ cough drops ♦ cough lozenge ♦ cough mixture ♦ cough out ♦ cough suppressant ♦ cough up ♦ develop a cough ♦ dry cough ♦ Ear cough ♦ give a cough ♦ give a slight cough ♦ hacking cough ♦ have a bad cough ♦ have a slight cough ♦ have husky cough ♦ hooping cough ♦ Hoppengarten cough ♦ Infants' Tylenol Cold Plus Cough Concentrated Drops [OTC] ♦ Newmarket cough ♦ smoker's cough ♦ stomach cough ♦ tea factory cough ♦ tea taster's cough ♦ the Cough ♦ To cough down ♦ troubled with a cough ♦ whooping cough ♦ winter cough. Additional references.

Beginning with "cough": cough-relieving, cough-splintered, cough-sweet, cough-up.

Ending with "cough": whooping-cough.

Afrikaans

hoes. (various references)

Albanian

kollitem (hack), kollë (size). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سعل (bark), ‏سعال, ‏خرج بالسعال, ‏إعترف بالجريمة. (various references)

Aymara

ch'ojhoña (to cough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кашлям, кашлица. (various references)

Chinese 

嗽 , �'�嗽 (Coughed, Coughing), �'� (sound of sighing), �'� (debate, part. indicating obviousness, to argue). (various references)

Czech

zpívat (appear, chant, sing), kašlat, kašel. (various references)

Danish

hoste (coughing). (various references)

Dutch

hoesten (chuffing, chugging, coughing), hoest (coughing). (various references)

Esperanto

tuso, tusi. (various references)

Faeroese

hosta. (various references)

Farsi 

سرفه کردن , سرفه . (various references)

Finnish

yskiä, yskä, rykiä (clear one's throat), köhinä, köhä. (various references)

French

toux (coughing), tousser. (various references)

Frisian

hoastje. (various references)

German

Husten (to cough). (various references)

Greek 

βήχω, βήχας (coughing). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכעכע (hawk), ל�"שתעל, ל�'� וח (groan, moan), שעול (coughing), �"שתעלות (coughing), �'� יח�" (coughing, groan, moan, wheeze). (various references)

Hungarian

köhögés (cough that seemed to rack his whole body, hacking cough, loose cough, productive cough), köhög (have a cough, to cough, to hack, to pop). (various references)

Icelandic

hósta. (various references)

Indonesian

berbatuk, batuk. (various references)

Italian

tossire (caugh), tosse (coughing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'�払い (clearing one's throat), �'�き払い (clearing one's throat), �'� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せきばらい (clearing one's throat), せき (barrier, dam, gate, house, hut, inn, mansion, one's domicile, one's family register, product, seat, sluice). (various references)

Korean 

기침 (Coughing). (various references)

Manx

mughaney (coughing), mughane, credyragh (grunt), creddal, cred (frog in throat, grunt, roughness, tickle), cassaghtee (coughing), cassaght. (various references)

Mohawk

-hshakha' (to cough). (various references)

Norwegian

hoste. (various references)

Papiamen

tosa. (various references)

Pig Latin

oughcay

Polish

kaszleć, kaszel. (various references)

Portuguese

tosse (hooping-cough), tossir (cough out, hack). (various references)

Romanian

tuse, tuşit (coughing), tuşi (whoop), pastilã de tuse, expectora (expectorate, spit). (various references)

Romany

has� v (to cough). (various references)

Russian 

кашель (hoop), кашлять (bark). (various references)

Scottish

casd, casad. (various references)

Sepedi

gohlola (to cough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakašljati, kašljati, kašalj. (various references)

Spanish

toser (bark), tos (coughing, croup). (various references)

Sranan

kosokoso, koso, bo'enbo'en. (various references)

Swedish

hosta. (various references)

Tagalog

ubó. (various references)

Thai

เสียงไอ, ไอ (hack), การไอ. (various references)

Turkish

öksürmek (bark, harrumph, hawk, hoop), öksürme (hoop), öksürür gibi ses çıkarmak, öksürük (bark). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьsgьrmek, ьsgьrlewьk, ьsgьlewuk. (various references)

Ukrainian

кашель, кашляти (bark). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chứng ho, sự ho. (various references)

Welsh

peswch. (various references)

Yucatec

se'en (cold). (various references)

Zulu

-khwehlela. (various references)

tussis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cough": coughed, cougher, coughers, coughing, coughs. (additional references)

Words ending with "cough": hiccough. (additional references)

Words containing "cough": hiccoughed, hiccoughing, hiccoughs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caugh, Caughie, Caughoo, clougy, cogh, cogu, cohg, cooga, coucgh, couf, cought, crough, gough, kough, mough, nough, ough, scough, vough, zough. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chug, ouch.

-2 letters: cog, hog, hug, ugh.

-3 letters: go, ho, oh, uh.

+1 letter: chough, clough, coughs, gaucho, grouch.

+2 letters: choughs, cloughs, coughed, cougher, gauchos, gouache, grouchy, ouching.

+3 letters: choragus, choregus, chousing, couching, coughers, coughing, douching, gouaches, grouched, grouches, guacharo, hiccough, hocusing, mouching, pouching, souchong, touching, vouching.

+4 letters: avouching, chorusing, couchings, crouching, doughface, grouchier, grouchily, grouching, guacharos, guilloche, hiccoughs, hocussing, mummichog, outcaught, outcharge, roughcast, roughneck, slouching, souchongs, unchoking.