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Definition: COUGHED |
COUGHEDImperative & past participle1. Of Cough |
Date "COUGHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: COUGHED |
| English words defined with "COUGHED": cough up ♦ pony up ♦ spit up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COUGHED": cough and die. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COUGHED": Cough. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, she coughed up a big one. (Girl, Interrupted; writing credit: James Mangold) I've coughed up hair balls that looked happier than you. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Big Man Coughed and... (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | However, Bruno instantly put a large spoonful of soup into its mouth, and the poor little thing coughed violently for some time. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She coughed a great deal. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He also tapped the portfolio and coughed gently and smiled. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Grampa choked, and a mouthful of paste sprayed into his lap, and he coughed weakly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some people notice infection when a worm is passed in stool or is coughed up. If this happens, bring in the worm specimen to your health care provider for diagnosis. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COUGHED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 95.37% of the time. "COUGHED" is used about 281 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 95.37% | 268 | 17,996 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.27% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.36% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 281 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "COUGHED": sluggishly-coughed, stage-coughed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COUGHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | å'³å—½ (Cough, Coughing). (various references) | ||||
French | toussées, toussée, toussé, toussâmes, toussa. (various references) | ||||
German | hustete, gehustet. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 기침하ëŠ". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oughedcay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "COUGHED": hiccoughed. (additional references) | |
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"COUGHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caughedy, Caughie, Caughley, Caughoo, cloughies, Couhe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "COUGHED" (pronounced kÄ"ft) |
| 3 | -Ä" f t | soft, Toft, waft. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-o-u" | |
-1 letter: douche, ouched. | |
-2 letters: coude, cough, douce, dough. | |
-3 letters: chug, code, coed, cued, deco, doge, duce, echo, gude, hoed, hued, huge, ohed, ouch. | |
-4 letters: cod, cog, cud, cue, doc, doe, dog, due, dug, duh, duo, ecu, edh, ego, ged, god, hod, hoe, hog, hue, hug, ode, oud, udo, ugh. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, eh, go, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-h-o-u" | |
+1 letter: grouched. | |
+2 letters: doughface. | |
+3 letters: debouching, doughfaces, hiccoughed, outcharged. | |
+5 letters: turbocharged. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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