cougher
Variant of cough
cough
Definition
cough (kôf)
intransitive verb
- to expel air suddenly and noisily from the lungs through the glottis, either as the result of an involuntary muscular spasm in the throat or to clear the air passages
- to make a sound like this
Etymology: ME coughen, akin to MDu cuchen, to cough, Ger keuchen, to gasp
transitive verb
- to expel by coughing
- to express or utter by coughing
noun
- the act or sound of coughing
- a condition, as of the lungs or throat, causing frequent coughing
cough up
- to bring up or eject (phlegm, food, etc.) by coughing
- ☆ Slang to hand over (money or the like)
