Hiccups

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late 16th century: imitative; the form hiccough arose by association with cough.


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hiccups (n.)

a bout of hiccupping, by 1723; see hiccup (n.). This often also was called hiccup or the hiccup. An earlier word for it (noun and verb) was yex, imitative, from Old English gesca, geosca.