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Cough vs Chough - What's the difference?

cough | chough |

As nouns the difference between cough and chough

is that cough is a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary while chough is two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.

As a verb cough

is to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

cough

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
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  • To make a noise like a cough.

    • Derived terms

    * cougher * cough up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
    • Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough .
  • A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
    • Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough .
    • He was – cough – indisposed.

    Hyponyms

    * barking cough * churchyard cough * congested cough * dry cough * hacking cough * loose cough * non-productive cough * productive cough * smoker's cough * wet cough

    Derived terms

    * cough mixture * cough syrup * whooping cough

    chough

    English

    (wikipedia chough) (Pyrrhocorax)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
  • The , of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

    • Derived terms

    * alpine chough * * white-winged chough