cougher

Variant of cough

cough definition

cough (kôf)

intransitive verb

  1. 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
  2. to make a sound like this

Etymology: ME coughen, akin to MDu cuchen, to cough, Ger keuchen, to gasp

transitive verb

  1. to expel by coughing
  2. to express or utter by coughing

noun

  1. the act or sound of coughing
  2. a condition, as of the lungs or throat, causing frequent coughing

Related Forms:

cough Idioms

cough up

  1. to bring up or eject (phlegm, food, etc.) by coughing
  2. ☆ Slang to hand over (money or the like)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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