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hooping-cough
hooping-cough Formerly the prevalent spelling of whooping-cough.
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Whooping
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Whooping, a style of preaching in the Black sermonic tradition
A form of gasping with whooping noises associated with whooping cough Whoopin, a 1999 album by Funky Butt
See also
Hooping, dancing while manipulating a hoop around one's body
Whipping, the act of beating the human body
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whooping-cough
whooping-cough, hooping-cough (ˈhuːpɪŋkɒf, -ɔː-) A contagious disease chiefly affecting children, and characterized by short, violent, and convulsive coughs, followed by a long sonorous inspiration called the hoop (whoop); the chincough.α 1739 E. Montagu Corr. (1906) I. 37 One little boy had whoopin...
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J. R. Hancorn
contributions to medical literature are Medical Guide to Mothers, Treatises on Consumption, Asthma, On the Medical and Domestic Treatment of Bronchitis and Hooping-cough
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crowing
▪ I. crowing, vbl. n. (ˈkrəʊɪŋ) [f. crow v.1 + -ing1.] The action of the verb crow. 1. lit.c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 34 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a clokke. 1483 Cath. Angl. 83 A Crowynge of rauens, cra, vel crocitatus. 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. i. 157 It faded on the crowing of t...
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coqueluche
† coqueluche Obs. Also 7 -luch(e)o. [a. F. coqueluche hood, etc. (obs. It. cocolluccio, f. cocollo, L. cucullus hood, cowl), applied orig. to a kind of grippe or epidemic catarrh, for which patients covered their heads with a coqueluche.] A name given in the 16th c. to an epidemic catarrh, and after...
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pertussis
‖ pertussis Path. (pəˈtʌsɪs) [mod.L., f. per- 4 + tussis cough.] = hooping-cough.[1772 T. Kirkland (title) Dissertatio Inaug. de Pertussi.] 1799 Hooper Med. Dict., Pertussis, the hooping cough. 1880 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 361 Spasmodic coughs, as pertussis and asthma.
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chincough
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-, k...
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kink
▪ I. kink, n.1 (kɪŋk) Also 7 keenk, 8 kenk. [prob. a. Du. kink twist, twirl, = G. kink, kinke, Da., Sw. kink, app. from a root *kink-, *kik-, to bend, twist; cf. Icel. kikna to bend at the knees, keikr bent back.] 1. a. A short twist or curl in a rope, thread, hair, wire, or the like, at which it is...
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peripneumonia
peripneumony, ‖ peripneumonia Path. Now rare or Obs. (pɛrɪpˈnjuːmənɪ, -pnjuːˈməʊnɪə) [a. F. péripneumonie (Paré, 16th c.), in 14th c. peripleumonie, ad. L. peripneu-, -pleumonia, a. Gr. περιπλευµονία (Hippocr.), later περιπνευµονία, f. περί around, about + πλεύµων, later πνεύµων lungs: see pneumonia...
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chink
▪ I. chink, n.1 (tʃɪŋk) [f. chink v.1; = northern kink.] A convulsive gasp for breath, or spasmodic losing of the breath, as in hooping-cough; a convulsive fit of coughing or laughing.[a 1500 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 791 (Nom. Infirmitat.) Hec reuma, a chynge.] 1767 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. iv, My L...
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original
original, a. and n. (ɒˈrɪdʒɪnəl) [a. F. original (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. orīgināl-is, f. orīgin-em: see origin. Cf. F. originel, used in some of the senses, e.g. péché originel original sin.] A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to the origin, beginning, or earliest stage of something; that belon...
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