| 单词 | churchyard cough |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschurchyard cough churchyard cough n. a bad cough, seemingly indicative of impending death; cf. graveyard cough n. at graveyard n. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > type of cough fox's cough1611 churchyard cough1693 hacking1770 barking1813 graveyard cough1873 hoicking1926 smoker's cough1927 1693*Church-yard cough [see Compounds 2a]. 1782 London Mag. Oct. 460/1 Lady Catterwaul was teized to sing, and she got through ‘Non temen’, &c. as well a good church yard cough, and a tolerable astmatic wheeze would permit. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers xli Jem coughed, poor fellow! he coughed his churchyard cough. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Med. Dec. 1045/1 Prominent symptom, cough; but that churchyard cough caused hope to battle against hope. 2002 J. Dufresne Deep in Shade of Paradise 110 She told him he ought to have that looked at. That's a churchyard cough. < as lemmas |
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