coch

Middle English; of imitative origin. See also German keuchen, Dutch kuchen.

• IPA^(key): /koːx/

coch

1. cough

coch (third-person singular simple present cochs, present participle cochin, simple past and past participle cocht)

1. to cough

From Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).

• IPA^(key): /koχ/

coch (plural cochyon, equative cochet)

1. red
   • 14th century, anonymous author, translated by Charlotte Guest, edited by R. L. Thomson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet (Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series; vol. I), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 1980, page 1, lines 20–22:

     Sef lliw oed arnunt, claerwyn llathreit, ac eu clusteu yn gochyon. Ac ual y llathrei wynnet y cwn, y llathrei cochet y clusteu.

     For their hair was of a brilliant shining white, and their ears were red; and as the whiteness of their bodies shone, so did the redness of their ears glisten.

• Welsh: coch

From Middle Welsh coch, from Proto-Brythonic *kox, borrowed from Latin coccum (“scarlet berry”), from Ancient Greek κόκκος (kókkos, “berry”). Cognate with Cornish kogh (“scarlet”).

• IPA^(key): /koːχ/
• Rhymes: -oːχ

coch (feminine singular coch, plural cochion, equative coched, comparative cochach, superlative cochaf)

1. red

   Synonym: rhudd

2. red, ginger (of hair)
3. bay (of a horse)

   Synonym: gwinau

4. (figurative) smutty, dirty, lewd
   • 1973, Robat Gruffudd, Englynion Coch [Dirty Poems]: