chin cough

noun

1. another name for whooping cough

Word History and Origins

Origin of chin cough¹

C16: changed (through influence from chine ¹and chin ) from earlier chink-cough, from chink ² + cough

Example Sentences

There was a woman on the island in those times," said Peter, "a very aged woman, and she had a kind of plaster which she made which cured the cancer, drawing it out by the roots, and she could tell what was good for the chin cough, and the women did like to have her with them when their children was born, she being knowledgable in them matters.

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