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noun
Sickness; disease; pestilence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A disease affecting sheep or cattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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verb
To faint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.
