Definition of "hiccoughing" [hiccoughing]

• Present participle of hiccough. (verb)

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• "The funniest thing about the affair was that I must have knocked Tom Spink's quid down his throat, for he was gagging and hiccoughing all the time he mopped and scrubbed."
• ""I'm not likely to consider," O'Brien was hiccoughing to his two friends in the course of explaining to them the question at issue."
• "Cornell was tittubating over her, hiccoughing, and repeating vacuously,"