churchyard cough

English

Etymology

Suggesting that the afflicted person will soon die and be buried.

Noun

churchyard cough (plural churchyard coughs)

a severe cough (condition that causes one to cough, tendency to cough)

Translations

a severe cough

Finnish: kova yskä
German: Friedhofsjodler (de) m

Irish: casacht thollta f

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