coughn.
/kɒf/, U.S. /kɔf/, /kɑf/ 1. The affection of coughing at short intervals, lasting for a longer or shorter period of time; a diseased condition of the respiratory organs manifesting itself in fits of coughing.The affection was down to 1600 usually called the cough (cf. the measles, the cholera, etc.); now in medical language simply cough; a cough is a specific attack, whether of definite duration or chronic, or a particular kind, as ‘a hollow cough’, ‘a churchyard cough’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing
hoasta1300
cough1377
coughing1398
hack1775
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 81 Coughes [C. couhes] and cardiacles, crampes, and tothaches.
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 713 [He] slepith, til that the coughe hath him awaked.
?a1400 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 119 Yf the caughe had them caughte, Of yt I coulde them heale.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 308 Passiouns of þe eeren, & of þe noseþrillis, & cold couȝe.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Ajv The same water dronken..at mornynge and at nyght..helpeth them that have the cowghe.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xii. 61 It is also good for the drie cowghe.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 178 Fal. What disease hast thou? Bul. A horson cold sir, a cough sir. View more context for this quotation
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica Pref. sig. dv It is in our Choice, whether a Cough shall run on to a Consumption.
1740–1 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Whiteway 13 Jan. My cold is now attended with a cough.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §21 An excellent medicine for coughs.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 247 He was affected with cough and dyspnœa.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxiv. 81 ‘But she has a cough’. ‘Cough!..I've always been subject to a cough’.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 355 Cough lies a good deal more under the influence of the will than most coughers suppose.
2.
a. A single act of coughing; a violent expulsion of air from the lungs with the characteristic noise.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > an act of
cough1742
1742 R. West Let. 4 Apr. in T. Gray Corr. (1971) I. 190 It will go on, cough after cough..for half an hour together.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 12 Dwining ventured to give a low cough..by way of signal.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) iv. 94 A violent contraction of the expiratory muscles, producing a cough.
b. The sound of a bullet or shell being fired or bursting. colloquial.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > of guns or shells
flash in the pan1566
bark1871
phut1874
prut1898
pip-pop1902
bom1906
crump1914
crumping1919
poop1919
cough1928
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > sound of firing
report1590
rat-tat1907
poop1919
cough1928
piffing1928
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War ii. 20 The..cough of anti-aircraft shells.
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. ii. 20 A loud double cough made his heart jump. It was Archie taking notice of them, and his first shots were always startling.
1969 Listener 12 June 813/3 The cough of mortars (everyone calls it a ‘cough’) and the clatter of sub-machine-guns.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
cough drop n. (a) a ‘drop’ or lozenge taken to cure or alleviate a cough; (b) slang a pungent or disagreeable person or thing; a ‘caution’ (see caution n. 3d).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > a special thing > an) extraordinary thing(s)
singularity1576
extraordinary1589
remarkable1639
extraordinary1650
something else1844
cough drop1851
quite something1909
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs > lozenge
cough drop1851
cough-lozengea1893
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 3/1 Vendors of..sweetmeats, brandy-balls, cough drops.
1895 Referee 21 July 7/3 ‘Honest John Burns’,..who would have benefited considerably had his constituents given him a holiday, objects to being called ‘a cough drop’.
c1895 Comic Song She looks as if she could curl your hair, Oh you've got a nice little cough drop there.
1897 W. S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth iv. 46 You are a coughdrop—..Ketch me refusin' when I 'ave the chanst.
1908 Daily Chron. 3 June 1/6 Strike me lucky, it was a corf-drop, it was, an' no mistike!
1908 Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 7/4 Didn't I tell you, sir, that she was a cough-drop?
1917 Strand Mag. Dec. 620/2 One o' the lightermen said I was a ‘wonder’, and the other said I was a ‘fair cough-drop’.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. i. 267 ‘Yond's a coughdrop,’ he announced to the room at large.
cough-lozenge n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs > lozenge
cough drop1851
cough-lozengea1893
a1893 Mod. Clear your throat with a cough-lozenge.
cough medicine n. a medicinal concoction for the alleviation of a cough.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs
cock-water1598
bechic1661
cough syrup1808
cough medicine1828
cough mixture1840
pholcodine1954
1828 Bk. of Health 105/1 Major Coccrane's Cough Medicine.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit li. 586 He had been surprised to find his fresh supply of cough medicine in such a place.
1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude ii. 61 Cough medicine for the corpse, perhaps!
cough mixture n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs
cock-water1598
bechic1661
cough syrup1808
cough medicine1828
cough mixture1840
pholcodine1954
1840 C. J. B. Williams in A. Tweedie Syst. Pract. Med. III. 70 The frequent use of a cough mixture, to diminish irritation.
1856 Enquire Within p. xii Cough Mixture for Children.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 407 He's got a coughmixture with a punch in it.
1960 D. V. Davis Domest. Encycl. 387 (heading) Cough mixture. A pleasant cough syrup, quite safe for children, can be made by mixing 5 oz. of honey with 4 oz. of treacle and ½ pint of vinegar.
coughwort n. a name proposed by Gerarde for the Coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > coltsfoot
horse-hoof1398
foalfoota1400
wowellc1450
Tussilago1510
coltsfoot1552
bull-foot1562
colt's-hoof1565–73
colt-herb1587
coughwort1597
horse-foot1597
flap-dock1846
clay-weed1878
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 667 Tussilago (which may also be Englished Coughwoort).
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cough sweet n. a medicated lozenge or boiled sweet used to relieve a cough or soothe a sore throat; a cough drop.Cf. throat sweet n. at Compounds 6.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs > lozenge
cough drop1851
cough-lozengea1893
1904 Shields Daily Gaz. 7 Mar. (2nd ed.) (advt.) Hunt's Horehound Candy, the most popular cough sweet made.
1985 S. Hutson Shadows xi. 68 He popped another cough sweet into his mouth and the smell of menthol seemed to intensify.
2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. 19 Cough sweets and lozenges are only suitable for older children and even then, can still pose a serious choke hazard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
coughv.1
/kɒf/, U.S. /kɔf/, /kɑf/ 1.
a. intransitive. To expel the air from the lungs with a more or less violent effort and characteristic noise, produced by the abrupt forcible opening of the previously closed glottis; usually in order to remove something that obstructs or irritates the air-passages.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > cough
coughc1325
hoastc1440
yoke1527
tussicate1598
hatch1733
hack1770
c1325 Old Age 8 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 I clyng i cluche i croke i couwe.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 100 Sone þis doctour..Coughed [v.r. couȝwede; C. xvi. 109 kowede] and carped.
c1386 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Harl.) 511 Softe he cowhiþ [v.r. coughed, cogheth, kougheþ, coude] with a semysoun.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 307 He coȝed ful hyȝe.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 165 Make him cowȝe & spitte out þe quytture.
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 97 (MS. K) Cowyn or hostyn [H. cowhyn, P. cowghen], tussio, tussito.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. L Neyther mayst thou ryse, cough, spyt, or nese.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Biiv I neuer here them cough [1562 coegh] nor hem.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 31 Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 259 Coughing, to conceal from the Provost the excess of his agitation.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 142 The herdsman should be aware of every beast that coughs.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right II. xcii. 336 He fell a-coughing violently.
b. To confess; to give information (cf. sense 3b). slang (originally U.S.).
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)]
inform1588
peach1598
whistle1599
sing1612
whiddlec1661
squeak1690
wheedle1710
whittle1735
to blow the gab1785
snitch1801
rat1810
nose1811
sing1816
gnarl1819
split1819
stag1839
clype1843
squeal1846
blow1848
to round on1857
nark1859
pimp1865
squawk1872
ruck1884
to come or turn copper1891
copper1897
sneak1897
cough1901
stool1911
tattle-tale1918
snout1923
talk1924
fink1925
scream1925
sarbut1928
grass1929
to turn over1967
dime1970
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > confess
subscribea1616
confess to1771
own1772
admit1830
to make a clean breast of1838
fess1840
to own up1844
to spit it out1855
to make a clean breast of it1878
cough1901
to come clean1919
to spill one's guts (out)1927
tell papa1929
1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 102 They put him in the sweat-box, and made him cough, an' you know the rest.
1962 M. Procter Devil in Moonlight vi. 56 Would you cough with five thousand in the kitty, and nobody able to prove where you'd got it from?
1970 W. J. Burley To kill Cat x. 175 Once he realized we had it on him he was ready to cough fast enough.
c. To fire shells. Cf. cough n. 2b.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > discharge artillery > of specific type
bombard1598
pom-pom1900
cough1925
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Coughing Clara, a nickname for a heavy gun.
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. ii. 21 It was not easy..to keep formation when Archie was coughing with black hate all the while.
d. Of an engine, etc.: to make noise like coughing; to misfire.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > engine sound > [verb (intransitive)] > back-fire or misfire
cough1884
backfire1902
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xix. 158 A steamboat, coughing along up stream.
1936 E. S. Gardner Case of Stuttering Bishop (1937) vii. 111 A donkey engine coughed into rhythmic explosions.
1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 87 Then the engine coughed and picked up sharply as the throttle was slammed open.
1954 D. Christie & C. Christie Carrington V.C. in Plays of Year 563 Well, going up a hill like the side of a house, the car started to cough, then it stopped.
2.
a. transitive. To express or utter by coughing.
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c1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 891 Koghe thow not thenne thy thonkes.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 148 No stationary steeds Cough their own knell.
b. To bring into a specified condition by coughing.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (transitive)] > cough up or out > bring into specific condition by coughing
cough1837
1837 E. Howard Old Commodore I. ix. 293 I think I am the first naval officer who ever coughed himself into a commission.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. iii. xxi. 201 One of them..was sitting up..and coughing its little life away.
1904 L. T. Meade Love Triumphant Prol. ii He kept..coughing as though he would cough his life away.
3. † b. figurative. With up, †out. To utter; to disclose. Also intransitive.1896 G. Ade Artie xi. 95 And I cough up to you because I know that you're a good fellow.1904 W. H. Smith Promoters iv. 84 Don't you ever fear that I coughed up anything that would put him on to the true inwardness of what we're working now.1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands x. 133 ‘Now,’ he said, ‘cough it up. Why'd yeh tear them dresses?’1929 W. P. Ridge Affectionate Regards 119 What started the notion, eh? Cough it up!1931 A. Christie Sittaford Myst. xxx. 239 ‘For Heaven's sake, cough it up, Emily,’ he said. ‘I want to get to the telegraph office. Every moment's vital.’
a. With out, up. To eject or get rid of by coughing.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (transitive)] > cough or spit up
reachOE
cough1362
hawk1581
expectorate1601
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 205 Glotoun was a gret cherl..And cowhede vp a cawdel in clementis lappe.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 122 This last cough, Ælia, cought out all thy feare.
1660 C. Ellis Gentile Sinner iv. 239 It has well nigh Cough'd out it's very heart.
1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) v. 93 The tubular substances coughed up.
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the mind > language > statement > state or declare [verb (transitive)]
speakc900
sayOE
sayOE
tell?a1160
to put forth?c1225
posea1325
allegec1330
declarec1330
exponec1380
to bring fortha1382
expounda1382
terminec1384
allaya1387
express1386
proport1387
purport1389
cough1393
generalize?a1425
deliverc1454
expremec1470
to show forth1498
promisea1500
term1546
to set forward1560
attribute1563
to throw out1573
quote1575
dictate1599
rendera1616
preport1616
enunciate1623
remonstrate1625
state1642
pronunciate1652
annunciate1763
present1779
enounce1805
report1842
constate1865
lodge1885
outen1951
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)]
cough1393
wrayc1425
to break a secreta1450
to tell allc1450
to bring (also put) to light1526
to let on1725
to open up1884
to come out of the closet1971
to come out1976
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
unwryc825
unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
cough1393
unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [verb (transitive)] > utter
leadOE
givec1175
tell?c1225
talkc1275
to set upa1325
to put outc1350
soundc1374
to give upc1386
pronouncea1393
cough1393
moutha1400
profera1400
forth withc1400
utterc1400
to put forth1535
display1580
vent1602
accent1603
respeak1604
vocalize1669
fetch1707
go1836
outen1951
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 163 Al þat ich wiste wickede by eny of our couent, Ich cowede hit vp in oure cloistre.
c1480 Ragman Roll 183 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 77 Aftir that ye coghyn up a songe.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1224 Lett vs syng, I say. Cowff vp þi brest.
1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 711 To make her confesse the thinges testified against her, and allso to cowgh out the rest, not yett discovered.
c. With up. To bring out, present, hand over; esp. to pay up (money). Also absol. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay up or out
to pay out1438
to pay over1668
to shell down1801
pony1819
tip1829
to fork out, over, or up1831
to stump up1833
to put up1838
stump1841
pungle1851
to ante up1880
cough1894
to peg out1895
brass1898
society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay up or out
to shell out1821
dub1823
stump1828
to stump up1836
tip1847
cash1854
to ante up1861
to fund up1888
pony1894
brass1898
cough1920
to pay up1941
to dig down1942
1894 San Francisco Midwinter Appeal 27 Jan. 2/4 Cough up a nickel, read the paper, and get the latest of camp doings.
1904 W. H. Smith Promoters vii. 122 I'll cough up the stock and bonds all right.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xix. 324 Everybody cough up what matches he's got.
1920 G. Moore Esther Waters xiv. 119 Now, then, old girl, cough up! I must have a few halfpence.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iv. 46 Thanks to Jeeves I was not going to be called on to cough up several thousand quid.
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Lightning vii. 148 Will you or will you not cough up that pig?
1959 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death takes Wife xv. 195 He coughed up. Don't ask me why.
d. To utter or express with a cough.
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1837 E. Howard Old Commodore I. ix. 293 I coughed out my gratitude.
4. to cough down: to ‘put down’ or silence (a speaker) by coughing so as to drown his voice.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
to stop a person's mouthc1175
stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
1823 New Monthly Mag. 9 299/2 If he will make long speeches, he must be coughed down.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 44 Who cheer one orator and cough down another.
5. causal. To cause to cough: see quot. 1832.
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1832 W. Youatt in Lancet 14 Apr. 40/2 The dealers' habit of coughing the horse, i.e. pressing upon the larynx to make him cough, in order that they may judge of the state of his wind.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > make foolish or a fool of [verb (transitive)] > oneself
to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529
to make oneself an ass?1548
fordote1563
to make an ass of oneself1671
silly1866
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase]
to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330
to glaze one's houvec1369
to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529
to make a fool of1534
to give (any one) the bobc1540
to lead (a person) a dancea1545
to make (someone) an ass1548
to make (a person) an ox1566
to play bob-fool witha1592
to sell any one a bargain1598
to put the fool on1649
to make a monkey (out) of1767
to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869
to string (someone) along1902
to swing it on or across1923
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciiiiv Wylt coughe me a dawe for forty pens.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciiiiv A I trowe ye shall coughe me a fole.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iijv If he come abroade, he shall cough me a mome.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G6 Else he may chaunce to cough himselfe a dawe for his labour.
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. B2v I know hee will cough for anger that I yeeld not, but he shall cough mee a foole for his labour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† coughv.2
Obsolete.
= coff v., to purchase, acquire, get.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)]
wieldeOE
haveeOE
ofgoOE
oweOE
addlec1175
winc1175
avela1200
to come by ——a1225
covera1250
oughtc1275
reachc1275
hentc1300
purchasec1300
to come to ——c1330
getc1330
pickc1330
chevise1340
fang1340
umbracec1350
chacche1362
perceivea1382
accroacha1393
achievea1393
to come at ——a1393
areach1393
recovera1398
encroach?a1400
chevec1400
enquilec1400
obtainc1422
recurec1425
to take upc1425
acquirea1450
encheve1470
sortise1474
conques?a1500
tain1501
report1508
conquest1513
possess1526
compare1532
cough1550
coff1559
fall1568
reap1581
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1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Dviiiv If euerye man that beguiled the kinge shuld make restitucion..it wold cough the kinge xx. m. poundes... Alac alac, make restitucion..ye wil cough in hel elsse, that all the deuylles there wyll laughe at your coughinge.
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