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Temporary setback
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hiccup
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Word definitions for hiccup in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. 2 (context by extension English) Any spasm or sudden change. 3 A minor setback. vb. To have the hiccups.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, hickop , earlier hicket , hyckock , "a word meant to imitate the sound produced by the convulsion of the diaphragm" [Abram Smythe Farmer, "Folk-Etymology," London, 1882]. Compare French hoquet , Danish hikke , etc. Modern spelling first recorded ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?" [syn: hiccough , singultus ] [also: hiccupping ...
Usage examples of hiccup.
Sheila broke off in a string of arrhythmic hiccups that gradually faded to sobs.
And fast as a hiccup, me only half listening to the radio, me half reading, the culling song goes through my head.
Fortner Geis, came flying at me, to hug and hiccup and make glad sounds, lift a mouth up as high as she could get it, which is perhaps a little over five feet off the ground when she is in four-inch heels.
No, I mean imprudent in that you talk too much of the Godless King and the runagate Queen, who will show her bosom and legs to all and go to mass hiccuping with the drink.
Indian girl, it would have been a sneeze, a hiccup, a burp, compared to what Mr.
The medical word for hiccups, singultus, is a perfect example of when physicians sound ridiculous.
She started crying, hiccupping, swaying back and forth, clutching at the blanket.
He experienced a hiccup of emotion and pictured pale limbs asprawl, a gory tunnel burrowed into a shock of white hair.
She choked back her hiccupping sobs and raced to the door then back to the clothespress to get her cloak.
Vine of Motley is crying herself into hiccups up in the guestchambers at this very moment, and no doubt feels herself mighty abused, but that baby is safer where he is than in her arms.
Her sobs turned into hiccups, then sighs, then the light even breathing of sleep.
It relieves muscular twitching, cramps, hiccups, convulsive fits of coughing and those sudden, sharp twinges of pain.
Fiona settled into erratic hiccups and scampered ahead of her sister toward the winding back stairs to the nursery wing.
Prussian cavalry, then we could partition the Japans without a hiccup and have done with all their devious stupidity and time-wasting bad manners.
She saw his cheeks growing red with his screams, saw the streaming tears, heard the hiccuping howls, coming harder and louder.