Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coughingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cough-ing-ly
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a coughing manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English coughing Middle English -ly English -ly English coughingly From coughing + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more coughingly (comparative) most coughingly (superlative)

Questions

What does coughingly mean?
In a coughing manner.
Where does coughingly come from?
Etymology tree English coughing Middle English -ly English -ly English coughingly From coughing + -ly.

How to pronounce coughingly

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