churchyard cough

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A severe cough. (condition that causes one to cough, tendency to cough) informal
    — He was roused from his brief rest by a violent fit of coughing, which seemed to shake the whole system. It was one which in England is so simply, yet so emphatically, denominated a churchyard cough. It was hollow, like the echo of the grave.

词形变化

churchyard coughs plural

词源

Suggesting that the afflicted person will soon pass away and be buried.
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