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chink cough

noun

Etymology

From chink, a variant of kink (“to gasp, to convulse with coughing or laughter”), + cough. Compare Scots kink-host, Dutch kinkhoest.

  1. derived from kinkhoest
  2. derived from kink-host

Definitions

  1. Synonym of whooping cough.

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