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churchyard cough
(informal, medicine) A severe cough. (condition that causes one to cough, tendency to cough)
💬 Quotations
He was roused from his brief rest by a violent fit of coughing, which seemed to shake the whole system. It was one which in England is so simply, yet so emphatically, denominated a churchyard cough. It was hollow, like the echo of the grave.