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What is the noun for coughing?

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cough
  1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
  2. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
  3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He was snapped out of his reverie by the sound of a gentle cough behind him.”
coughing
  1. A cough; the act of coughing.
cougher
  1. A person who coughs.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It seems common experience in concert halls and theatres that we cannot suppress a cough, although the cougher and his neighbours may disagree about this.”
      “Unfortunately Attawapiskat doesn't know how to use the phone or the subway and I'm ashamed to say, I miss the little cougher of hairballs.”
      “On a recent visit to a hospital emergency room, I saw two stab wounds surrounding a hacking cougher.”
coughings
  1. plural of coughing
coughers
  1. plural of cougher
  2. Examples:
    1. “So who else is sick of the coughers and splutterers and sweet wrapper rustlers who spoil concerts?”
      “There have been croaky coughers everywhere you turn, all sneezing away, hoping to get rid of their infection by passing it on to you.”
      “Microphones would be placed around arrival areas and linked to a central control to identify the location of persistent coughers.”
coughs
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