1736 Canting Dictionary / T / THOROUGH-Cough [thing]
farting and coughing at the same time.
· ·
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Thorough Cough in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).