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  • verb Present participle of hiccough.

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Examples

  • The funniest thing about the affair was that I must have knocked Tom Spink's quid down his throat, for he was gagging and hiccoughing all the time he mopped and scrubbed.

    CHAPTER XLV 2010

  • Cornell was tittubating over her, hiccoughing, and repeating vacuously,

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • "I'm not likely to consider," O'Brien was hiccoughing to his two friends in the course of explaining to them the question at issue.

    The Passing of Marcus O'Brien 2010

  • So I have to smile at life and its way of hiccoughing us all through until our end and I have to hold the loveliest moments inside me like an empty shell.

    Everything and Nothing 2010

  • Mangas punished the tizwin something fearful, and presently, when the others had toppled sideways or were hiccoughing against each other telling obscene Apache stories, he jerked his head at me, collared a flask, and led the way, stumbling and cursing freely, to the old ruined fort.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • A low hiccoughing came from some concealed arboreal thing.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Well, at 12: 30 AM, not having slept for more than 24 hours, I thought it was and I thought that I had saved it when blogger was having cramps and my wireless was hiccoughing.

    Thursday Thirteen #30-thirteen more « Adventures in Juggling 2006

  • Well, at 12: 30 AM, not having slept for more than 24 hours, I thought it was and I thought that I had saved it when blogger was having cramps and my wireless was hiccoughing.

    31 « August « 2006 « Adventures in Juggling 2006

  • Well, at 12: 30 AM, not having slept for more than 24 hours, I thought it was and I thought that I had saved it when blogger was having cramps and my wireless was hiccoughing.

    August « 2006 « Adventures in Juggling 2006

  • And honour to the Cuckoo too — why not! — for bursting out of the trap – door in the Moorish Palace like a house – breaker, and hiccoughing twelve times on the assembled company, as if he had got drunk for joy!

    The Cricket on the Hearth 2007

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