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coath

Pronunciation: /kəʊθ/

The English word “coath” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence.
  2. An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
  3. A disease affecting sheep or cattle.

verb

  1. To faint.
  2. To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.

Etymology

From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.

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