Definitions
exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
Word origin
From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.
Used in a sentence
“Sometimes she coughed up blood.”
“Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat, and then stood gazing serenely at the landscape.”
“He almost coughed himself into a fit.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Throat burst”5 letters
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