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Definition of Cough out
1. Verb. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth.
Specialized synonyms: Cough, Ptyalise, Ptyalize, Spew, Spit, Spue, Spit Out, Splutter, Sputter
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Eject, Exhaust, Expel, Release
Derivative terms: Expectoration, Expectoration, Expectorator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cough Out
Literary usage of Cough out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Governments and Laws: Exhibiting the Governmental by Stephen Haley Allen (1922)
"Of these four, in the trial by fire, let the person whose light goes out first
be the loser if before the light goes out, one shall cough out the water from ..."
2. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1882)
"Of these four, in the trial by fire, let the person whose light first goes out
be the loser; if before the light goes out, one shall cough out the water ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1882)
"“If your Grace did but know,” he says, “of my processions with her, all manner
of ways, your Grace would not a little marvel that she will no more cough out ..."
4. Calendar of State Papers: Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth by Great Britain Public Record Office (1863)
"Kate Ashley would not " open any of the things " with which she was so fully
replenished," nor would Elizabeth " cough out more matter" than it suited her ..."
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