Meaning of hooping-cough | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of whooping cough.

alt-of, alternative, uncountable

Examples

“"Why, you see, sir, the times are bad, and I am no speculator. I have a wife and family, and a man with a wife and family must be just before he is generous. Besides, my two youngest children have just had the hooping-cough, and they must have a little country air: all these things are expensive. I appeal to your feelings, sir, whether you would drive a hard bargain with a man in my situation?"”

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