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Definition: Coughing |
CoughingNoun1. The act of exhaling air suddenly with a noise. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coughing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: CoughingSynonym: cough (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: coughed (medicine). |
Crosswords: Coughing |
| English words defined with "coughing": adult respiratory distress syndrome, antitussive, ARDS, atypical pneumonia ♦ codefendant, codeine, coughing up, croup ♦ expectoration ♦ haemoptysis, hemoptysis ♦ laryngitis ♦ mycoplasmal pneumonia ♦ phenyltoloxamine, primary atypical pneumonia ♦ spasmodic laryngitis, sternutator, sternutatory, stress incontinence ♦ To cough down ♦ wet lung, white lung. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coughing": Benvolio ♦ Dyspnea, Paroxysmal ♦ hog flu ♦ pig flu, pig influenza ♦ stress urinary, swine influenza ♦ THOROUGH COUGH ♦ whooping-cough. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "coughing": Cough. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm terribly worried about him. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) I'm going to shove coal so far up your stocking you'll be coughing up diamonds (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Could barely take a breath without coughing up a pint of blood (Ravenous; writing credit: Ted Griffin) | |
Lyrics | So, cut the crying, Cut the coughing, Cut the weazing, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Coughing Horror (1924) | |
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 | This bacterium can attack any part of the body, though usually the lungs, causing Tuberculosis, and is spread through inhalation of infected sputum from a coughing or sneezing individual. Credit: CDC. |  | Highly communicable, vaccine-preventable disease that lasts for many weeks and is typically manifested in children with paroxysmal spasms of severe coughing, whooping, and post-tussive vomiting, also known as Bordet-Gengou bacillus. Credit: CDC. |
 | Hantaviruses that cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are carried in rodent droppings, especially the deer mouse. Incubation lasts for 1â€"5wks. Sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing. Credit: CDC. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Child coughing. | | Woman coughing. |
| Coughing. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In fact, coughing fits interrupted Fantine at almost every word |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Casey was still struggling through his fit of coughing and laughter |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The giggling got out of control and turned into coughing. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Frequent throat clearing, hoarseness, coughing or wheezing. (references) | |
They may worsen when coughing, changing posture, or straining. (references) | ||
Coughing up blood-stained sputum or blood (hemoptysis) occurs less frequently. (references) | ||
Travel | Turkey | Neither do the accepted practices of frequent soapy handwashing or covering of the mouth when coughing or sneezing and then washing hands. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Coughing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.85% of the time. "Coughing" is used about 264 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 (-ing form) | 84.85% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.61% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.03% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.52% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 264 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coughing": a coughing bout ♦ attack of coughing ♦ coughing fit ♦ coughing up ♦ have a fit of coughing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "coughing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | å'³å—½ (Cough, Coughed). (various references) | |
Danish | tussis (cough), hoste (cough). (various references) | |
Dutch | tussis (cough), hoesten (cough), hoest (cough). (various references) | |
French | toux (cough), toussant. (various references) | |
German | hustend. (various references) | |
Greek | βήχας (cough). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שעול (cough), ×"שתעלות (cough), ×'× ×™×—×" (cough, groan, moan, wheeze). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rázza a köhögés (have a fit of coughing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terbatuk-batuk (have a coughing spell, sputtering). (various references) | |
Italian | tosse (cough), LA tussis (cough). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | å'³å—½ . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ãŒã„ãㆠ(building or car's exterior, outer layers, report of an official's offence to the emperor). (various references) | |
Korean | 기침 (Cough). (various references) | |
Manx | mughaney (cough), cassaghtee (cough). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oughingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tosse (cough, hooping-cough). (various references) | |
Romanian | tuÅŸit (cough). (various references) | |
Russian | закашлÑÑ‚ÑŒÑÑ (have a fit of coughing). (various references) | |
Scottish | coinn (fit of coughing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imati napad kašlja (have a fit of coughing). (various references) | |
Spanish | tos (cough, croup). (various references) | |
Swedish | hostattack (attack of coughing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "coughing": hiccoughing. (additional references) | |
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"Coughing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boughing, caughing, choughing, coughings, oohhing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coughing" (pronounced kÄ"fing) |
| 3 | -f i ng | beefing, bluffing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, debriefing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, huffing, knifing, laughing, leafing, morphing, offing, photographing, proofing, puffing, rebuffing, roofing, roughing, ruffing, rustproofing, sniffing, snuffing, spiffing, spoofing, staffing, strafing, stuffing, surfing, waterproofing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-g-h-i-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: ouching. | |
-3 letters: chino, coign, cough, cuing, going, incog, ohing. | |
-4 letters: chin, chon, chug, cion, coin, coni, gong, hogg, hong, huic, hung, icon, inch, nigh, nogg, ouch, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, cog, con, ghi, gig, gin, gnu, gun, hic, hin, hog, hon, hug, hun, ich, ion, nog, noh, ugh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-g-h-i-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: grouching. | |
+3 letters: churchgoing, hiccoughing, outcharging. | |
+4 letters: churchgoings, roughcasting. | |
+5 letters: laughingstock. | |
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