bronk

9.9

An illness in the chest that makes you cough a lot

noun
/brɔŋk/

Slang

: bronquitis

He missed work for a week because he had a bad case of the bronk.

Examples

My doctor said the bronk should clear up with rest and fluids.
After coughing all night, she worried she might have caught the bronk from her coworker.
He has a bad bronk this winter.
My sister caught a bronk from the cold weather.
He missed work for a week because he had a bad case of the bronk.
My doctor said the bronk should clear up with rest and fluids.
After coughing all night, she worried she might have caught the bronk from her coworker.

Synonyms

bronchitis

vsbronk

Specialized

1 3.5

Swelling of the breathing tubes that makes you cough and have trouble breathing

is an informal casual word used for that medical chest illness

How Severe

pneumonia

Specialized

121 4.3

bronk

Slang

9.9

Surface Forms

bronk singular

bronks plural

Etymology

The word bronk is a short, informal form of words with the root bronch-, as in bronchitis, which comes from an old Greek word for the 'windpipe'. So bronk is used for a chest illness because it affects the tubes that carry air in your lungs, causing cough and trouble breathing.