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Cough vs Clough - What's the difference?

cough | clough |

As a verb cough

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

As a noun cough

is a sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

As a proper noun clough is

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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

    clough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
    • (Nares)
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
    • (Knight)
  • A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • (label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  • (label) A wood; weald.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * cloff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

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