chesty
Americanadjective
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suffering from or symptomatic of chest disease
a chesty cough
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having a large well-developed chest or bosom
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Origin of chesty
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Most chesty coughs generally settle after a few weeks without needing antibiotics, but if it lingers beyond three weeks, Prof Smith urges people to go to their GP.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
With that, Courtois bounded up all chesty like some pharaoh of the goalmouth, and his teammates surrounded him with admiration and gratitude.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
“We’d just go around and crash people’s weddings,” McBryde says with a chesty laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
By the end, Carolina had finished with a 38-24 edge in shots on goal and outhit the Predators in a game with plenty of chippy moments and chesty exchanges between the teams.
From Fox News ● May 18, 2021
A pregnant young woman sat up and held her chest and began to cough, unending chesty coughing that was painful to hear.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Even so, the Yankees walloped his Red Sox two for one, and pulled into Sarasota last week chestier than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seizing his scissors, Cardin fashioned another, chestier paper jacket, put it on the evening jet from Paris to Nice, whence it was whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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