chincough Obs. or dial.
(ˈtʃɪnkɒf)
Also 6 chyne cough, chyn-, chincoughe, (chyckock), choinecouch, 7 choynecough.
[For chinkcough, in northern dialect kinkcough, f. chink v.1, kink + cough. An earlier form was kinkhost (f. host cough), corresp. to MLG. kinkhôste, LG. kinkhost, Du. kinkhoest, kik-, kiekhoest, Ger. keich-, keuchhusten, Da. kighoste, Sw. kikhosta, hooping-cough, all containing the stem (Saxon) kink-, OTeut. kik- to chink, kink, gasp. By popular etymology the word seems to have been connected with chin and chine, and in north dial. with king.]
An epidemic distemper, especially of children, characterized by a violent and convulsive cough: now more commonly called hooping-cough.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 35 b, I am foule rayed with a chyne [? chync] cowgh. [1538 Bale Thre Lawes 525 Thre syppes are for the hyckock And vi more for the chyckock.] 1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Pas pesswch, chyncoughe. 1565 Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 167 Was hee staied with the Choine-couch, and forced to breake off his tale in the midst. 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Bonduca i. ii, It shall ne'er be said..Thou diedst o' th' chin-cough. 1652 Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra, Not broken it of in the middle, as if you had had the Choyne cough. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 121 ¶1 Poor Cupid..lies under something like a Chin-Cough. 1806 Med. Jrnl. XV. 508 A deep sonorous hoop, exactly resembling that of chin⁓cough. 1823 Moore Fables, Holy Alliance vi. 92 That they and theirs stood by the King, Throughout his measles and his chin-cough. 1859 Miss Mulock Domest. Stories (1862) 28 He cured Mabel of the chincough. |