单词 | cough syrup |
释义 | cough syrupn. A liquid medicine, usually flavoured and sometimes (mildly) narcotic, taken either to suppress or expectorate a cough.Such medicines are sometimes abused on account of their potentially intoxicating effects and ready availability: see quots. 1965, 2007. ΘΚΠ 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 1808 D. Macdonald New London Family Cook 600 Linseed Cough Syrup. Boil one ounce of linseed in a quart of water;..[etc.]; when cold, put to it two table-spoonfuls of the best old rum. 1823 National Advocate (N.Y.) 15 Dec. Dr. Van Buren's Pills; Billious Pills; Cough Syrup; Strengthening Bitters; [etc.]. 1868 Consult Me to know How to Cook 122/1 Let the Cough Syrup be taken two or three times a day, to promote expectoration, ease pain, &c. 1902 Youth's Compan. 20 Mar. 144/1 You have your wife make you some cough syrup with an onion in it. It's a sight better than these boughten syrups. 1965 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. 44/1 The State Bureau of Narcotic Control said today that 172 pharmacies in the state..had been illegally selling cough syrups containing narcotics. 1983 W. F. Buckley Story of Henri Tod (1984) xv. 116 They had stocked..only routine medications—aspirin, a cough syrup. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlv. 719 He..began not only drinking more but..taking Vicoden pills, slurping Hycomine cough syrup, whatever. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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