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cougher

cougher

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A person who coughs a lot
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔfər/
: toser
  • At the concert, it was hard to enjoy the music because of the constant noise from a cougher nearby.

Examples

  • The doctor advised people to wear masks around frequent coughers to prevent the spread of germs.

  • Because I'm a natural cougher

    Funny Girl (1968)

  • Here, sneezers, coughers, and other disease broadcasters are required to smother their expectoration under a T-shirt.

    Blog text (25)

  • During the meeting, a persistent cougher interrupted several times with loud fits of coughing.

Surface Forms

cougher singular
coughers plural

Morphology

cougher = cough (transparent) = cough + er

Standard agentive formation from the verb 'cough' using '-er' meaning 'a person who coughs'.

Etymology

Cougher comes from the simple verb cough, which comes from an old English word meaning 'to make a coughing sound', and the ending -er means 'one who does something'. So a cougher is simply 'one who coughs', often someone who coughs a lot or in a way people notice.