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chincough Obs. or dial.|ˈtʃɪnkɒf| Also 6 chyne cough, chyn-, chincoughe, (chyckock), choinecouch, 7 choynecough. [For chinkcough, in northern dialect kinkcough, f. chink v.1, kink + cough. An earlier form was kinkhost (f. host cough), corresp. to MLG. kinkhôste, LG. kinkhost, Du. kinkhoest, kik-, kiekhoest, Ger. keich-, keuchhusten, Da. kighoste, Sw. kikhosta, hooping-cough, all containing the stem (Saxon) kink-, OTeut. kik- to chink, kink, gasp. By popular etymology the word seems to have been connected with chin and chine, and in north dial. with king.] An epidemic distemper, especially of children, characterized by a violent and convulsive cough: now more commonly called hooping-cough.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 35 b, I am foule rayed with a chyne [? chync] cowgh. [1538Bale Thre Lawes 525 Thre syppes are for the hyckock And vi more for the chyckock.] 1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Pas pesswch, chyncoughe. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 167 Was hee staied with the Choine-couch, and forced to breake off his tale in the midst. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca i. ii, It shall ne'er be said..Thou diedst o' th' chin-cough. 1652Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra, Not broken it of in the middle, as if you had had the Choyne cough. 1709Addison Tatler No. 121 ⁋1 Poor Cupid..lies under something like a Chin-Cough. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 508 A deep sonorous hoop, exactly resembling that of chin⁓cough. 1823Moore Fables, Holy Alliance vi. 92 That they and theirs stood by the King, Throughout his measles and his chin-cough. 1859Miss Mulock Domest. Stories (1862) 28 He cured Mabel of the chincough. |