chin cough

Meanings

nounchin cough (countable and uncountable, plural chin coughs)

plural chin coughs · alternative chincough · alternative kinkcough

nounSynonym of whooping cough.

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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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