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definition

cough it up, chicken! expression or saying

Encouragement to one engaged in a coughing fit

Origin

First recorded in Jonathan Swift’s A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation (1738) as “choke up, chicken”

Collector

King family – 1950s?
Naomi’s family growing up

Notes

The more modern usage, involving acts of self-pleasure for men, is not here intended

Submitted: 27/03/2026 by Mark

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