Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
whooping-cough .
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Examples
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They tipped him when he went to school; when he had the hooping-cough, a confidential young clerk went round by way of Grey
The Newcomes 2006
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Some of them I found had hooping-cough, which is one of the few epidemics that range through this country.
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In the morning, I was seized with a dangerous fit of hooping-cough, which terrified my wife, alarmed my people, and brought the whole community into the house.
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European dress — various forms of indigestion and ophthalmia; hooping-cough comes frequently; and every year the period preceding the rains is marked by some sort of epidemic.
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The arrangements for this day were peculiarly trying to delicate children, particularly to those who were spiritless and longing for home, as poor Maria Bronte must have been; for her ill health was increasing, and the old cough, the remains of the hooping-cough, lingered about her.
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They were not strong when they came, having only just recovered from a complication of measles and hooping-cough: indeed,
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Surprise, it is urged, removes the hooping-cough; looking from a precipice, or seeing a wheel turn swiftly, causes giddiness.
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In 1849 hooping-cough made its appearance, and prevailed for several months, among adults as well as children.
Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner
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Thomas Browne, in his 'Vulgar Errors,' and from whatever cause it may have arisen it is certain that the hairs taken from the part of the animal so marked are held in high estimation as a cure for the hooping-cough.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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Fond mothers endeavoured to cure hooping-cough by passing their afflicted children three times before breakfast under a blackberry bush the branches of which grew into the ground; other parents went out into the highways in search of a man riding on a piebald horse, to ask him what would restore to health their children affected with this painful cough.
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