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churchyard coughs

churchyard coughs is the plural of churchyard cough.

Meaning of churchyard cough

Noun

churchyard cough (plural churchyard coughs)

  1. (informal) A severe cough. (condition that causes one to cough, tendency to cough)
    • He was roused from his brief rest by a violent fit of coughing, which seemed to shake the whole system. It was one which in England is so simply, yet so emphatically, denominated a churchyard cough. It was hollow, like the echo of the grave.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 186

Questions about churchyard coughs

What is churchyard coughs the plural of?
Churchyard coughs is the plural of churchyard cough.

Words near churchyard coughs in the dictionary

  1. churchwomen
  2. churchwork
  3. churchy
  4. churchyard
  5. churchyard cough
  6. churchyard coughs
  7. churchyards
  8. Churdar
  9. Churdars
  10. churel
  11. churels

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