hooping-cough

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See also: whooping cough

English

Noun

hooping-cough (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of whooping cough
    • 1837, L E L, “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 24:
      "Why, you see, sir, the times are bad, and I am no speculator. I have a wife and family, and a man with a wife and family must be just before he is generous. Besides, my two youngest children have just had the hooping-cough, and they must have a little country air: all these things are expensive. I appeal to your feelings, sir, whether you would drive a hard bargain with a man in my situation?"