Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chin cough

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English

Syllables
chin -cough
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of whooping cough.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Variant of earlier chink cough, from chink (“to gasp, to convulse with coughing or laughter”) + cough. Compare Scots kink-host, Dutch kinkhoest, and see chink.

Usage

Inflected Forms

chin coughs (plural) chincough (alternative) kinkcough (alternative)

Synonyms

whooping cough

Questions

What does chin cough mean?
Synonym of whooping cough.
Where does chin cough come from?
Variant of earlier chink cough, from chink (“to gasp, to convulse with coughing or laughter”) + cough. Compare Scots kink-host, Dutch kinkhoest, and see chink.

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