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COUGH

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

COUGH is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

COUGHS-s 3 COUGHING-ing 11 COUGHED-ed 5

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COUGHINGS 11
verb
  1. transitiveSometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
    • Sometimes she coughed up blood.
  2. transitiveTo cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
    • He almost coughed himself into a fit.
  3. transitiveTo express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo surrender (information); to confess.
  5. figurativelyslangtransitiveChiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
  6. intransitiveTo push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
    • I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
  7. intransitiveTo make a noise like a cough.
    • The engine coughed and sputtered.
  8. intransitiveslangTo surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
noun
  1. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
    • Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
  2. A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
    • whooping cough
    • Sorry, I can’t come to work today—I’ve got a nasty cough.
  3. figurativelyA noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
  4. A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
interjection
  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.