spicy cough

English

Etymology

spicy (meaning danger) + cough.[1] First used in current sense c. March 2020.

Noun

spicy cough

  1. (informal, preceded by definite article) COVID-19.
    • 2020 March 4, Sean (@MrSeanysean123), twitter‎[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2020:
      If I've survived the past two years to get killed off by a spicy cough I'll not be best pleased.
    • 2021 June 19, dech...@hotmail.com, “Re: Donald Trump's graceless departure revealed his true colours”, in aus.politics‎[2] (Usenet):
      A court deciding one of the largest divorce settlements in history has awarded Melinda Gates custody of 50% of the people who have taken the spicy cough jab.

References

  1. ^ "spicy cough, noun the", in Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney, 2022

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