Hiccough

Definitions: Hiccough

Hiccough

Noun

1. (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?".

Verb

1. Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water".

Date "hiccough" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Hiccough

Synonyms: singultus (n), hiccup (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Wind	Sneezing .Verb:: errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hiccough

English words defined with "hiccough": hiccough nut, Hiccoughed, Hiccoughing, Hickup ♦ Singult, Singultous ♦ Yex. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Each hiccough of our cloaca costs us a thousand francs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Hiccough" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Hiccough" is used about 16 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
Noun (singular)	87.5%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	12.5%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expressions using "hiccough": have hiccough ♦ hiccough nut. 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 "hiccough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lemzë bëj lemza (hiccup), lemzë (hiccup). (various references)

Arabic		‏فواق (hiccup), ‏حوزق (hiccup), ‏أصاب بالفواق. (various references)

Bulgarian		хълцане (burp, hiccup, sob), хълцам (burp, hiccup). (various references)

Chinese		呃 . (various references)

Czech		škytavka (hiccup), škytat (hiccup). (various references)

Danish		nulke (hiccup). (various references)

Dutch		hikken (hiccup). (various references)

Esperanto		singulto (hiccup), singulti (hiccup). (various references)

Farsi		سکسکه(hiccup), سکسکه کردن (Hiccup). (various references)

French		hoqueter (hiccup). (various references)

German		schluckauf (hiccup). (various references)

Greek		λόξυγγασ (hiccup). (various references)

Hebrew		לש�"ק (hiccup), ש�"וק (eructation, hiccup). (various references)

Hungarian		csuklás (hiccup). (various references)

Italian		singhiozzo (hiccup, singultus, sob). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		吃逆 (hiccup). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゃっくり (hiccup). (various references)

Manx		jannoo ellag, ellag. (various references)

Pig Latin		iccoughhay

Portuguese		hibisco (gumbo), soluço (hiccup, singultus, sob), soluçar (hiccup, sob, whimper). (various references)

Romanian		sughiţa (hiccup, sob), sughiţ (hiccup, sob), icni (groan, hiccup). (various references)

Russian		икота (hiccup), икать (hiccup). (various references)

Scottish		aileag (hiccup, the hiccough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		štucati (hiccup), štucanje (hiccup). (various references)

Spanish		hipo (hiccup), hipar (hiccup), tener hipo (hiccup), poseer hipo (hiccup), decir hipando (hiccup). (various references)

Swedish		hicka (hiccup, hiccups). (various references)

Thai		สะอึก (hiccup). (various references)

Turkish		hıçkırmak (have the hiccoughs, have the hiccups, hiccup, sob), hıçkırık tutmak (have the hiccoughs, have the hiccups, hiccup), hıçkırık (hiccup, sob). (various references)

Ukranian		гикати (hiccup, whoop), гикавка (hiccup). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hiccough": hiccoughed, hiccoughing, hiccoughs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hiccough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hiccoughy, hiccugh, hicough. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-g-h-h-i-o-u"
	-2 letters: chough.
	-3 letters: chico, couch, cough.
	-4 letters: chic, chug, high, huic, ouch.
	-5 letters: chi, cig, cog, ghi, hic, hog, hug, huh, ich, ugh.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-g-h-h-i-o-u"
	+1 letter: hiccoughs.
	+2 letters: hiccoughed.
	+3 letters: churchgoing, hiccoughing.
	+4 letters: churchgoings.
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