cough

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /kɒf/|/kɔːf/    美 /kɔf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
    — Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
  2. A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
    — whooping cough
  3. A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1). figuratively
  4. A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
动词 v.
  1. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth. transitive
    — Sometimes she coughed up blood.
  2. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1. transitive
    — He almost coughed himself into a fit.
  3. To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1. transitive
    — No ſtationary ſteeds / Cough their ovvn knell, vvhile heedleſs of the ſound / The ſilent circle fan themſelves, and quake.
  4. To surrender (information); to confess. figuratively,transitive
  5. Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money). figuratively,slang,transitive
    — By the time you get back the men will all be striking out for the fire, and we'll break for the house and collar the dollars. Everybody cough up what matches he's got.
  6. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway. intransitive
    — I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
    The Improvised Polyglot, or The Art of Writing Languages without Learning Them. […]
  7. To make a noise like a cough. intransitive
    — The engine coughed and sputtered.
  8. To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans. intransitive,slang
感叹词 intj.
  1. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
    — He was—cough—indisposed.

词形变化

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词汇关系

下位词
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衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognates
* Middle Dutch cuchen (“to cough”) (modern Dutch kuchen (“to cough”); German Low German kuchen (“to cough”))
* Middle High German kûchen (“to breathe (on); to exhale”), kîchen (“to breathe with difficulty”) (modern German keichen, keuchen (“to breathe with difficulty; to gasp, pant”))
* Spanish cof (“coughing sound”)
* West Frisian kiche (“to cough”), kochelje (“to cough persistently”)
词源 2
The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1.
The interjection is probably derived from the noun.
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