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Roughing vs Coughing - What's the difference?

roughing | coughing |

As verbs the difference between roughing and coughing

is that roughing is while coughing is .

As a noun coughing is

a cough; the act of coughing.

roughing

English

Verb

(head)

    • coughing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cough; the act of coughing.
  • * 1855 , Anna Mary Howitt, A school of life (page 63)
    • The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings , and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}