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单词 linctus
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Definition of linctus in English:

linctus

noun ˈlɪŋktəs
mass nounBritish
  • Thick liquid medicine, especially cough mixture.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It'll pass of course, these things always do, and in the meantime I can get by on aspirin, linctus and the occasional hot toddy.
    • Traces of cough linctus suggest that he was being looked after.
    • To Spilsby this morning, to fetch linctus, lemons and honey for Graham, who has now developed a full-scale summer cough.
    • In 1993 I was given a liver function test and later told by the consultant that if I continued with my addiction to the cough linctus, I would definitely die within the next 12 months.
    • There comes a time, however, when you simply can't face another pill, potion or linctus without throwing up.
    • Then I started drinking heavily, smoking cannabis, drinking Temaza linctus which made me go a bit crazy.
    • When these thin, frazzled, frequent flyers contract the lurgy or lethargy, they don't stock up on Lemsip, linctus or Boots multivitamins like the rest of us.
    • This morning I've struggled back in to work armed with a bottle of linctus and a large box of tissues, man-size for man-flu!
    • If I list just five of the 31 possible side effects of Solaraze such as ulcers, dermatitis, hair loss and vomiting, then surely a little bottle of linctus is very small beer.
    • Another method described in an ancient text is sugar-candy taken with rice-wash in the form of a linctus to produce sterility in a woman without lessening her passion.
    • I'm feeding him freshly-squeezed lemon and honey topped up with boiling water, paracetemol, and pholcodine linctus.
    • I shall attack this with a suitable linctus and hot rum'n'lemon toddies when I've been out shopping tomorrow and after my house viewers have been in the mid-afternoon.
    • Pholcodine linctus suppresses dry coughs and simple linctus soothes the throat or tickly cough without any side effects.
    • I was offered instead a bottle of children's linctus.
    • He asked for a list of drugs, but Mrs Patel could only provide codeine linctus, which can be used by heroin addicts.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Latin, from lingere 'to lick'.

  • This word for a cough mixture is an adoption of a Latin word which comes from lingere ‘to lick’. It is literally a mixture meant to be lapped up by the tongue.

 
 
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