chincoughとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Variant of earlier chink cough, from chink (“to gasp, to convulse with coughing or laughter”) + cough. Compare Scots kink-host, Dutch kinkhoest, and see chink.

名詞

chin cough (countable and uncountable, plural chin coughs)

1. (archaic) Synonym of whooping cough.

参照

• “chincough, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• “chin cough”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Ching-chou