"churchyard cough" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: churchyard coughs [plural]
Etymology: Suggesting that the afflicted person will soon pass away and be buried. Head templates: {{en-noun}} churchyard cough (plural churchyard coughs)
  1. (informal, medicine) A severe cough. (condition that causes one to cough, tendency to cough) Tags: informal Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (a severe cough): kova yskä (Finnish), Friedhofsjodler [masculine] (German), casacht thollta [feminine] (Irish)

Inflected forms

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