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chin cough

British  

noun

  1. another name for whooping cough

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of chin cough

C16: changed (through influence from chine 1 and chin ) from earlier chink-cough, from chink ² + cough

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