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coath

  • /kəʊθ/ UK
  • /koʊθ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊθ

Where it comes from

From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.

noun coaths · cothe

  1. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable Sickness; disease; pestilence.
  2. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
  3. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable A disease affecting sheep or cattle.

verb coaths · coathing · coathed · cothe

  1. intransitive To faint.
  2. transitive To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.

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"coath." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/coath. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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coath. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/coath

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"coath." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/coath.

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@misc{coath_2026,
  title = {coath},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coath},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}