coughy
/ˈkɔfi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The man looked ill, and she hoped he didn't have that coughy flu that had been wiping out everyone at the office."
- "This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles."
Etymology
From cough + -y.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔfi/
- British English: /ˈkɒfi/
Inflected Forms
coughier (comparative)
coughiest (superlative)