Middle English Dictionary Entry
chinke n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chinke n. Also chinge, ginke & kinke, kinge. |
| Etymology | Cp. chinken (1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Asthma or whooping cough; (b) chinke-cough, ~ host [cp. ME họ̄ste & MLG kink-hōste], whooping cough.
Associated quotations
a
- a1275 Louerd asse þu ard (Trin-C B.14.39)239 : Ginke & sqinancie..Mo uueles he hede þen i conne tellen.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)28/44 : For the kynge off the brest. Take clarified hony [etc.].
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)100/269a : Drynke wyne..with the juys of sothernwode, for it doth gode agayne the cough and the chynk.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)72 : Pro tussi que vocatur le chinke.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)101/10 : For þe coughe þat is called þe kynke.
b
- ?c1190 Vita SGodrici in Sur.Soc.20 (LdMisc 413)373 : Ex tussi vehementiore..quod genus infirmitatis Kinkehost vocant Angli.
- a1400 Med.Bk.(2) (Roy 17.A.3)72 : For þe chink cowȝ.
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)3 : De tussi puerorum quæ dicitur chincac.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)205/4 : For the kynkecough.
- a1500 Med.Bk.(2) (Sln 3153)72 : For þe couȝhe þat is cald the chynke hoste.
- a1500 A man þt will (Cmb Ff.5.48)274 : Þe chyncogh shalle be full rife, Þt mony men shalle short her life.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91) 60 : It dooþ gode a-yein þe cowgh and þe chynke [vrr. kynke, chyngke].
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91) 97 : Poudre of this herbes rote etyn with hony wole destroye þe cough and in þe same wyse doþe it helpe in medecyn to hem þat hauyn þe chincost [vrr. kynghost, chinghost, kyngys coghe or hostnes, chynckes, kyngys hooste, kyngys cogh or hoste, chynke cowhe].
Note: Additional quotes, new spellings.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. chink 1.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. chink cough.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. kinkcough.