different between cough vs chough

English

Etymology

From Middle English coughen, coghen, from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”). Cognate with Dutch kuchen (“to cough”), German keuchen (“to pant”), Albanian hukat (“pant, gasp”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?f/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /k??f/
• (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f
• Rhymes: -??f

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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

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

Derived terms

• cougher
• cough up

Translations

Noun

cough (plural 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.

Synonyms

• (condition): tussis

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gouch

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English choughe, cho?e, coo, cheo, from Old English ??o (“a bird of the genus Corvus, a jay, crow, jackdaw, chough”) and ?eahhe (“a daw”), both from Proto-West Germanic *kahwu (“jackdaw, crow”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to crow, caw, shout”).

Cognate with Scots kae (“jackdaw”), West Frisian ka (“jackdaw”), Dutch kauw (“jackdaw, daw, chough”), Swedish kaja (“jackdaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??f/
• (UK)
• Rhymes: -?f
• Homophone: chuff

Noun

chough (plural choughs)

1. Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     For parot is no churlish Chowgh, nor no flekyd pye
     Parrot is no pendugum, that men call a carlyng
     Parrot is no woodecocke, nor no butterfly
     Parrot is no stameryng stare, y^t men call a starlyng
     But Parot is my owne dere harte, & my dere derl?g

2. The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.

Derived terms

• alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
• red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
• white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)

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