coughとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kɒf/
• (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA^(key): /kɔf/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: kŏf, IPA^(key): /kɑf/
• 韻: -ɒf
• 韻: -ɔːf

動詞

cough (三人称単数 現在形 coughs, 現在分詞 coughing, 過去形および過去分詞形 coughed)

1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:

     I drew a deep breath, and a moment later wished I hadn't, because I drew it while drinking the remains of my gin and tonic. “Does Kipper know of this?“ I said, when I had finished coughing.

   I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.

   Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.

3. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

   The engine coughed and sputtered.

派生語

• cougher
• cough up

名詞

cough (複数形 coughs)

1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

   Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

   Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.

3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame

   He was – cough – indisposed.

下位語

派生語

• cough mixture
• cough syrup
• whooping cough