Pertussal

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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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