tussis

See also: Tussis

English

Etymology

From Latin tussis (“cough”).

Noun

tussis (uncountable)

1. A cough.
   • 1902, Robert M. Tooker, “The Homœopathic Treatment of Whooping Cough”, in The North American Journal of Homeopathy, volume 50, page 48:

     In cachectic subjects, or in a strumous child the victim is never safe when the diathesis is reinforced by any contagion which further undermines a constitution built on sand. Even in such cases the force of the tussis attack can be rendered less forceful by judicious treatment and proper care.

   • 1971, Edward Wagenknecht, James Russell Lowell; Portrait of a Many-sided Man, page 224:

     Except of my coffin, / For what can I else with this horrible tussis?

   • 2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156:

     As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.

Translations

cough — see cough

See also

• tussic, tussive, tussal, tussicular
• tussiculation

Anagrams

• suists

Catalan

Verb

tussis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of tossir