Pertussal
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to pertussis or whooping-cough. not-comparable
"[…] the friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal "backdraucht" in a crowd of school-children."
Example
More examples"[…] the friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal "backdraucht" in a crowd of school-children."
Etymology
From pertussis + -al.
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