Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of pertussis or whooping-cough.
Wiktionary
- adj. pertaining to pertussis or whooping-cough
Etymologies
- From pertussis. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Pale Fire
rubicund, buttonhole, stillicide, preterist, curio, iridule, lemniscate, cherubic, portico, vestry, rodstein, sectile and 107 more...
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Pale Fire
eschatology, ovoid, convivial, pertussal, jaunt, immolate, demilune, lugubrious, denizen, disinter, jejune, peccadillo and 8 more...
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Lowry
nutant, meed, donga, mephitic, punk, caliginous, cauchemar, horripilation, hyacinthine, corposant, counterscarp, garboon and 65 more...
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yarb ...subterranean pertussal whoops, diatonic supplications, echoing of expiring concertinas...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola Jul 30, 2008