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cough

/kɔf/ interjection C2
  1. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem. · He was—cough—indisposed.
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About this time the nurse’s cough was heard on the stairs and the woman entered the room with a cup in her hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1006 · C1
His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
The Jungle Book, p. 38 · B2
Mowgli stood as quietly as he could, peering through the open work and listening to the furious din of the fight round the Black Panther--the yells and chatterings and scufflings, and Bagheera’s deep, hoarse cough as he backed and bucked and twisted and plunged under the heaps of his enemies.
The Jungle Book, p. 54 · B2
And Clementina has such a funny little cough.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 5 · C1

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