chin cough
noun
another name for whooping cough
Origin of chin cough
1C16: changed (through influence from chine 1 and chin) from earlier chink-cough, from chink ² + cough
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How to use chin cough in a sentence
I wanted to get Maggie Cassidy up from the village for the day, but her baby had the chin-cough, and she couldn't come.'
Hyacinth | George A. BirminghamThe chin-cough seems to resemble the gonorrhœa venerea in several circumstances.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus DarwinThey are said to be infallible in that which is commonly called the Chin-Cough.
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | George Francis DowThe juyce stops bleeding; they provoke lust exceedingly; help that troublesome cough that women call Chin-cough.
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | George Francis Dow
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