chin cough

noun

1. another name for whooping cough

Word History and Origins

Origin of chin cough¹

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

Example Sentences

I wanted to get Maggie Cassidy up from the village for the day, but her baby had the chin-cough, and she couldn't come.'

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The chin-cough seems to resemble the gonorrhœa venerea in several circumstances.

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They are said to be infallible in that which is commonly called the Chin-Cough.

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The juyce stops bleeding; they provoke lust exceedingly; help that troublesome cough that women call Chin-cough.

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