Definitions for cough

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cough cough

Spelling: [kawf, kof]

IPA: /kɔf, kɒf/

Cough is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in cough (cghou).

Definitions for cough

noun

1. the act or sound of coughing.
2. an illness characterized by frequent coughing.
3. a sound similar to a cough, a machine gun, or an engine firing improperly.

Verb phrases

1. cough up, Slang. to relinquish, especially reluctantly; contribute; give. to blurt out; state, as by way of making a confession:

verb (used with object)

1. to expel by coughing (usually followed by up or out):

verb (used without object)

1. to expel air from the lungs suddenly with a harsh noise, often involuntarily.
2. (of an internal-combustion engine) to make a similar noise as a result of the failure of one or more cylinders to fire in sequence.
3. to make a similar sound, as a machine gun firing in spurts.

Origin of cough

1275-1325; Middle English coghen, apparently Old English *cohhian (compare its derivative cohhettan to cough); akin to Dutch kuchen to cough, German keuchen to wheeze

Examples for cough

Here a cough interrupted him, and he paused and ran his hand through his hair.

Will went on to say doctors believe a “sneeze or some cough” can spread Ebola.

Captain Smith affected a cough, and put his brown mare into a canter.

It can spread through a sneeze, cough, sharing a beverage or speaking up close with someone who has the disease.

Get a flu shot, wash your hands, and cover your mouth when you cough.

Some cough up preposterous jury awards, while others lay bare the egregious failures of the criminal justice system.

His father's cough had been bad all night, and this made his mother troubled and cross.

Mis' Eben Smith's got eight young ones down with the whoopin'-cough.

I then made him understand that I had a weak chest, and that the smoke made me cough.

Brosseau said her views had nothing to do with Ebola spreading among the public at large through a sneeze or cough.