different between cough vs fough

English

Etymology

From Middle English coughen, coghen, from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”). Cognate with Dutch kuchen (“to cough”), German keuchen (“to pant”), Albanian hukat (“pant, gasp”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?f/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA^(key): /k??f/
• (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: k?f, IPA^(key): /k?f/
• Rhymes: -?f
• Rhymes: -??f

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

1. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.

3. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.

Derived terms

• cougher
• cough up

Translations

Noun

cough (plural coughs)

1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

   Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

   Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.

3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

   He was – cough – indisposed.

Synonyms

• (condition): tussis

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gouch

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

fough

1. Obsolete spelling of faugh

Synonyms

• (disgust): bleah, eww, ick, pooh, uck; see also Thesaurus:yuck
• (contempt): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah