hacking cough

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ˌhacking ˈcough noun [usually singular]  MIa repeated painful cough with an unpleasant sound 频咳

Examples from the Corpus

hacking cough• A hacking cough from the porch heralded the arrival of Nancy Little and the Doctor.• I have this little dry hacking cough.• And I looked, dry hacking cough and head congestion.• Arriving there, he moved from flophouse to flophouse because none of his fellow tenants could endure his hacking cough.• Dry, teasing, hacking cough with a sense of suffocation.• Whether or not we will shortly have a passive computer lobby, it certainly gives a new meaning to the hacking cough.

ˌhacking ˈcough nounChineseSyllable  

sound an with Corpus a cough unpleasant repeated painful

hacking cough
ˌhacking ˈcough noun [usually singular]
a repeated painful cough with an unpleasant sound

hacking coughBrE /ˌhækɪŋ ˈkɒf/ 🔊NAmE /ˌhækɪŋ ˈkɔːf/ 🔊 noun [singular] a dry painful cough that is repeated often 频繁的干咳