By the time you get back the men will all be striking out for the fire, and we'll break for the house and collar the dollars. Everybodycough up what matches he's got.
To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually toexpel somethingblocking orirritating theairway.
I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started tocough.
1577,Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial.[To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl.,Flowers of Epigrammes[…],[Manchester]:[…][Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published1874,→OCLC,pages56–57:
Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thoucougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, youcough / to fare deliciouſly.
"Did your lordship's servant see Simon Glover and his daughter?" said Henry, struggling for breath, andcoughing, to conceal from the Provost the excess of his agitation.
1835 January 23 (date written), Frederic James Post, “A Discourse Touching Rides and Riding”, inExtracts from the Diary and Other Manuscripts of the Late Frederic James Post, of Islington.[…], London:[…][James Moyes] for private circulation, published1838,→OCLC,pages331–332:
But often, when thy face [i.e., that of a horse] is turnedfrom the stable, thou hast an unaccountable desire to place it in the position occupied by thy tail: thou stoppest,coughest, shyest, and erst, with swift detorsion, turnest round, then, with sidelong glance of my magic caduceus, ominously wagging between the horizon and thy ample sides, I incite thee on, but rarely does thy pace more than trot,from home.
[[1840], A[ngelo] Renzi, “Verbi. Verbes. Verbs.”, inLe polyglotte improvisé, ou l’art d’écrire les langues sans les appendre.[…] [The Improvised Polyglot, or The Art of Writing Languages without Learning Them.[…]], Paris: Chez l‘auteur,[…]; Chez Baudry,[…], et Chez les Principaux Libraries,→OCLC,page498:
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 finishedcoughing.
Wake up, by-and-by, and look to see what done it, and maybe see a steamboat,coughing along up stream, so far off towards the other side you couldn't tell nothing about her only whether she was stern-wheel or side-wheel; then for about an hour there wouldn't be nothing to hear nor nothing to see—just solid lonesomeness.
to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth
1640,John Parkinson, “Cyperus dulcis rotundus esculentus, Trasi dulce vocatus. The Most Delicate Sweet Cyperus, or Rush Nut.”, inTheatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent:[…], London:[…]Tho[mas] Cotes,→OCLC,page148:
[I]t conduceth helpe to the crudities, humidities, and vvindineſſe of the ſtomacke and belly, and to helpe the ſhortneſſe of breath andcoughes:[…]
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 and another boy interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark aboutcough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
[John]Fal[staff]. VVhat diſeaſe haſt thou? / [Peter]Bul[lcaff]. A horſon cold ſir, acough ſir, vvhich I cought vvith ringing in the Kings affaires vpon his coronation day ſir.
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