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Coughs vs Coughy - What's the difference?

coughs | coughy |

As a noun coughs

is plural of cough.

As a verb coughs

is third-person singular of cough.

As an adjective coughy is

characterized by coughing.

coughs

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (cough)

    • coughy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by coughing.
  • * 1996 , Frank Freudberg, Gasp!: a novel of revenge (page 213)
    • The man looked ill, and she hoped he didn't have that coughy flu that had been wiping out everyone at the office.
  • * 2005 , Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, What philosophers think (page 215)
    • This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles.