chin cough

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chin cough

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Variant of earlier chink cough, from chink (“to gasp, to convulse with coughing or laughter”) + cough. Compare Scots kink-host, Dutch kinkhoest, and see chink.

noun chin coughs · chincough · kinkcough

archaic, countable, uncountable Synonym of whooping cough.
Similar: whooping cough

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@misc{chin_cough_2026,
  title = {chin cough},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chin%20cough},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}