hiccup

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
2. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
3. (broadly) Any spasm or sudden change.
4. (informal) A minor obstacle or setback.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.
2. (transitive) To say with a hiccup.
3. (intransitive) To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup.

Concepts

hoquet

hoqueter

avoir le hoquet

sanglot

😭

cahot

myoclonie phrénoglottique

avoir hoquet

h aspiré''

accroc

hoquet ''m

anicroche

hic

obstacle

Synonymes

hiccough

singultus

burp

belch

howl

kink

retch

stand on tiptoe

hickup

catch

hiccups

hitch

Traductions

hipo

Schluckauf

singhiozzo

hik

hikken

soluço

😭

singhiozzare

😭

soluçar

singlot

hicksen

singulto

hipar

Schluckauf haben

singultus

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈhɪkʌp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à écossais: hick

Appartenant à frison occidental: hik

Appartenant à néerlandais: hik

Appartenant à Middle Low German: hükup

Appartenant à bas-allemand: hick

Appartenant à allemand: hicksen

Appartenant à suisse allemand: Hidsgi

Appartenant à danois: hikke

Appartenant à suédois: hicka

Appartenant à islandais: hiksti

In summary

From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (“hiccup”), Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Middle Low German hükup, huckup, hueckup (modern Low German hick (“hiccup”)), German hicksen (“to hiccup”, verb), Alemannic German Hidsgi (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”), Swedish hicka (“hiccup”), hicka (“to hiccup”, verb), Icelandic hiksti (“hiccup”).
Displaced yex, from Middle English yexen, ȝisken, ȝixen, ȝoxen (“to hiccup”), from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian (“to hiccup”).