Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cough and a spit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables: cough and a spit
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A very short distance.

British usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Ray Wise managed his back-to-black-hair role before joining Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts and James Marshall squeezed in his cough and a spit between Gladiator and joining the big boys (Nicholson, Cruise) in A Few Good Men […]"
"Everybody gargling madly and mugging up their lines as though Shakespeare himself was out front. Don't know why I bothered, I only had a cough and a spit."
"[…] a Lancaster squadron at Bawne, west of Cambridge — it sits a cough and a spit from the Bedfordshire border."
"[…] Stockwell, a cough and a spit from Vauxhall Cross."

Usage

British usage
Colloquial

Inflected Forms

a cough and a spit (canonical)

Questions

What does cough and a spit mean?: A minor role.

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