Cougher


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Cough´er


n.1.One who coughs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"Illegally?" the old cougher asks without hesitation, blowing a suspicious cloud of poisonous nicotine smoke into his face.
Until we ended up with feeble finalists Mark "cougher" Wright and crybaby Bianca "Westminister" Miller.
A continual cougher irritates my lungs and throat....
In the dock with the Ingrams is alleged cougher Tecwen Whittock, 53, pictured, who lives at Whitchurch, Cardiff, and is head of business studies at Pontypridd College.
The scrutiny report adds: "The microphones and cameras would be sited along the passageway from the aircraft to the gate, along which passengers go relatively slowly and no more than two abreast, which should make it easy to identify a cougher and their companions, and intervene to divert them into a place where they can be isolated and receive medical diagnosis, advice and treatment.
When it comes to maintaining the mean machine, I am about as useful as a cougher at a concert.
The nurse rolled her eyes, dropped his hand, and went to check on the cougher in the next bed.
More recently Ricola's "Thanks a Million Mystery Cougher" promotion received a Gold Reggie award from the Promotional Marketing Association in the 2005 event marketing category.
swindle.: Whittock was the studious Welshman who gave Major Charles Ingram coded coughs to direct him to the top prize.: He was forced to resign from his position as head of business studies at Pontypridd College after the scandal.: But now he wants to build a career on the back of it.: Whittock's son, 20-year-old student Rhys, has designed a website called The Official Site of The Cougher to sell his father as a speaker, a writer, and even to market his name.: The site says: 'Tecwen Whittock is a unique name and is instantly associated with coughing.
Business studies lecturer Tecwen Whittock, who is accused of being the cougher, was just an acquaintance who was looking for tips to help him get on the hit show, she claimed.
Many of us go to the emergency room waiting room when we face "the last straw." On a recent visit to a hospital emergency room, I saw two stab wounds surrounding a hacking cougher. A woman was bent over in her thin blanket, clearly in stomach pain of unknown origin.
Did you know that the Federal Aviation Administration does not regulate the cleaning of airplanes, or that the microscopic spray from an infected cougher can be propelled as far as 25 feet?