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coughing

sustantivo A2

En español: tos

  1. A cough; the act of coughing.
  2. A repetitive vocalisation of a bird or other animal that resembles human coughing.

Plural coughings

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He had hardly spoken when a shower of nuts and twigs spattered down through the branches; and they could hear coughings and howlings and angry jumpings high up in the air among the thin branches.
The Jungle Book, p. 35 · B2
Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the monkeys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends’ tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.
The Jungle Book, p. 49 · B2
“Don’t keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven’s sake!
Pride and Prejudice, p. 5 · B2
As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 30 · C1

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