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Definition of Coughers
1. cougher [n] - See also: cougher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coughers
Literary usage of Coughers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Science of Living: Result of Investigations Made for the Trustees by Edward Hooker Dewey, George Frederick Pentecost, Harold Clarence Ernst, Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture (1895)
"... is a veterinary inspector ready to condemn the carcass as unfit for human food ?
No, the " coughers " are going to be sold to dealers in cheap beef ..."
2. Infectiousness of Milk: Result of Investigations Made for the Trustees of by Harold Clarence Ernst (1895)
"No, the " coughers " are going to be sold to dealers in cheap beef, and bologna
sausage manufacturers, whose slaughtering establishments are outside of the ..."
3. Conversations on Conditioning: The Grooms' Oracle, and Pocket Stable by John Badcock (1829)
"... and thumb of one of those coughers, quite plain : it had been a horse of good
price at one time of day, and was a prepense roarer. ..."
4. Rational treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by Charles Sabourin (1921)
"Gradually the coughers and spitters would find themselves morally compelled to
cease expectorating on the floor and in their handkerchiefs. ..."
5. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"Its percentage of know-alls, chatterers, coughers, and superior persons is small
and highly unpopular; they listen better than the average audience m any ..."
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