Coath
/koʊθ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Sickness; disease; pestilence. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 2 An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 3 A disease affecting sheep or cattle. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To faint. intransitive
- 2 To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot. transitive
Synonyms
All synonymsEtymology
From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.