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Date "WHOOPING-COUGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | An acute infectious disease characterised by coughing spasms that end with a shrill crowing sound on inspiration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WHOOPING-COUGH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kighoste (paroxysmal cough, pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tussis quinta (pertussis), tussis convulsiva (pertussis), pertussis (pertussis), kinkhoest (pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hinkuyskä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coqueluche (whoop, whooping cough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wolfshusten (pertussis), Tussis convulsiva (pertussis), Stickhusten (hooping cough), Pertussis (pertussis), Keuchhusten (whooping cough, whoopingcough), Eselshusten (pertussis), Blauhusten (pertussis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκκύτης (pertussis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szamárköhögés (hooping cough, whooping cough), szamárhurut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tosse canina (whooping cough, whoopingcough), tosse asinina (pertussis), pertosse (pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooping-coughwhay tosse convulsa (pertussis, whooping cough), coqueluche (chin-cough, faddiness). (various references) коклюш (hooping cough, hooping-cough, pertussis, whooping cough). (various references) tos ferina (croup, whooping cough), pertussis (pertussis), coqueluche (pertussis). (various references) kikhosta (pertussis, whooping cough, whoppingcough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-g-h-h-i-n-o-o-o-p-u-w" | |
-5 letters: coughing, pooching, pouching, whooping. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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