Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1769-1822, 1898-1915
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CHINCOUGH, Chincoch, n. Whooping-cough. Known to Cai.7 1940 and Arg.1 1929 in form chincoch, and to Fif.1 1940, Rnf.1 c.1920. Also gin-cough (Sh. 1898). See P.L.D. §158, §165. Cf. kinkcough and kink-hoast s.v. Kink, v.2, n.2 Common in Eng. dial. but now obs. in St.Eng. [′tʃɪnkɔf, ′tʃɪnkɔx]Sc. 1769 W. Buchan Domestic Medicine 362:
Of the Hooping-cough, or Chin Cough: This cough seldom affects adults, but proves often fatal to children.Sh. 1898 Shet. News (14 May):
He got dis weary gin-cough in Aapril.Ork. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 VII. 542:
No epidemical distempers are generally prevalent here [Kirkwall], if we except the small-pox, measles, chincough, and others of that nature.ne.Sc. 1822 William Mackie compiler, ed. David Stevenson The Diary of a Canny Man (1991) 10:
13th July, 1822 ... The children are not yet clear of the chin cough but are otherwise all in good health and have got a fine day.Abd. 1784 Entry in Strichen parish registers:
Isabel Chalmers, Borrowhill, of the chincough aged 8 years.Edb. 1915 J. Fergus The Sodger, etc. (1916) 18:
An' it wasna like the chin-cough, or the croup or the diphthery.Uls. 1901 J. W. Byers in North. Whig:
If the patient is a child he . . . may have . . . the “chin-cough” (whooping-cough).
