α. 1600s– hooping cough (now somewhat rare).
β. 1600s– whooping cough, 1900s whooking cough (English regional).
Also with hyphen.
单词 | whooping cough |
释义 | whooping coughn.α. 1600s– hooping cough (now somewhat rare). β. 1600s– whooping cough, 1900s whooking cough (English regional). Also with hyphen. A respiratory disorder characterized by bouts of severe coughing, typically followed by a noisy, gasping intake of breath; spec. the highly infectious, often epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, which most frequently affects children (= pertussis n.). In early use also: an instance or case of this.The sound associated with the intake of breath after coughing is commonly described as a whoop, but is highly variable.Earlier names for this disorder include chincough, kinkcough, and kinkhost. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > whooping cough kinkhost?c1190 chincougha1400 kinkcoughc1450 whooping cough1657 coqueluche1706 pertussis1774 α. β. 1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) 346 Also it's [sc. poppy waters compound] good for..the chin-cough or whooping cough.1739 E. Montagu Let. in E. J. Climenson Elizabeth Montagu (1906) I. 37 One little boy had whooping cough.1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. iii. 55 Will it..be carried off by scarlet fever or whooping-cough?1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 66/1 (advt.) It [sc. Cresolene] has become in the past forty-five years the most widely used remedy for whooping cough and spasmodic croup.2018 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 6 Sept. d2/1 The older vaccine for whooping cough was phased out in the late 1990s.1657 R. Turner tr. T. Moulton Compleat Bone-setter 30 The cause hereof [sc. hernia] is oftentimes in Children, crying, some loud hooping-cough, or extream blowing with wind. 1761 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 9) xxix. 43 Chin-Cough or Hooping-Cough. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 179 Hooping-Cough is generally regarded as an infectious disease, depending upon a specific poison. 1911 S. Morgan Text-bk. Domest. Pract. 21 With hard, dry cough and sore throat, as in Hooping Cough. 2016 @RealTimVine 8 July in twitter.com (accessed 24 July 2020) Has someone near the commentators got hooping cough? #wimbledon. Compounds As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or affected with whooping cough’. ΚΠ 1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 391 Mr Spottiswood's unwillingness to go in the Steam boat with a Hooping-Cough Family would have hindered him. 1868 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Oct. 386/2 It [sc. an epidemic influence] may be favourable to one disease, as in the whooping-cough epidemic in 1861–2. 1915 Public Health Jrnl. 6 112/2 We have a remedy in hand in the form of Whooping Cough vaccine, which should be given more extensive trials. 2018 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 6 Sept. d1/3 In 2012, the United States had the highest number of whooping cough cases in more than 50 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1657 |
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