coughings

Noun

coughing (plural coughings)

1. A cough; the act of coughing.
   • The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings, and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action […]1855, Anna Mary Howitt, A school of life, page 63
2. A repetitive vocalisation of a bird or other animal that resembles human coughing.
   • The nocturnal sounds of the mountains were new to him, yet they fell upon his ears like the soft voice of a half-forgotten love. Many he intuitively sensed—ah, there was one that was familiar indeed; the distant coughing of Sheeta, the leopard; but there was a strange note in the final wail which...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 81