coch

Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.

• IPA^(key): /koːx/

coch

1. cough

coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past cocht, past participle cocht)

1. to cough

From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).

• IPA^(key): /koːχ/
• Rhymes: -oːχ

coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)

1. red

   Synonym: rhudd

2. red, ginger (of hair)
3. bay (of a horse)

   Synonym: gwinau

4. smutty, dirty
   • 1973, Robat Gruffudd, Englynion Coch [Dirty Poems]:

• The plural can also be used as a noun.