hiccup , also: hiccough

Scientists have discovered that the human foetus can hiccough.

Nellie accepted Code Red or, at least, she didn't hiccough over it.

Mark has settled well after a hiccough at the start.

True, there had been a hiccough at the time of the divorce.

It was like a hiccough in the middle of a groan.

Keeping her face smooth took effort; maybe they would take it for a hiccough.

Every now and then she gave a quiet hiccough.

From time to time, a dry little hiccough shook her.

She strangled on another hiccough and stopped crying long enough to ask, "Who?"

His weakness increased every moment, and a harassing hiccough continued until death took place.

She gave a curious start, like a suppressed hiccough.

The second sound might have been a hiccough.

Since then, despite the odd hiccough, I have continued to give my time and effort to the Trust.

He heard the hiccough in his own throat.

With a big hiccough the bus started off.

The original pronunciation in all cases except hiccough was the one of lough.

The Master, less characteristically, gave a hiccough of laughter.

The machine jumped a space - very fast, like a hiccough - and the hand drew back down inside."

It stopped below them and the engine cut out with a final hiccough of blue smoke from the exhausts.

The big man invoked his Maker, spoiling the effect with an alarming hiccough.

Lytha's voice had a hiccough in it, but a half smile, too.

A hiccough and a curse from the shadows.

Nothing happened, not even the slight hiccough which accompanies a stun gun's operation.

Nothing but a hiccough in history now but at the time it had demanded all of their combined energies.

As he leaned to point, the ground under our feet gave a huge hiccough, jerked him off balance and snatched his hand from my wrist.

It took a moment - a sob, and then a hiccough - but then she did laugh.

She pressed one gloved hand to her mouth to suppress something between a hiccough and a gasp.

Everything works out in the end, although there are a few hiccups along the way.

No well in fact there are one or two hiccups we've had with them.

We we've had one or two hiccups so I always ask about that.

After what seemed an age all that could be heard were little hiccups.

Finally he settled down with a case of the hiccups.

Sorry, but I never had a hiccup in two straight days.

That makes the Crash of 1929 look like a hiccup.

In several weeks of talks there were only small hiccups.

He was shaking like a man with a bad hiccup.

And to all women, he corrected himself with a hiccup.

"No system of this size is going to start without some hiccups," he said.

Watch it Michael, it's coming yeah, oh you have got hiccups?

So you would agree that there have been significant hiccups this year?

We run to a doctor and demand treatment for every little hiccup.

What happens if you're writing a long article and the computer hiccups?

But last night, at the play, I developed a fit of hiccups.

Short-term hiccups are those that go away within a few hours.

Every once in awhile it would give a little hiccup.

For the broader economy, this may turn out to be just a hiccup.

In 1993, there was a slight hiccup, but we are still well above 1991 and 1990.

So the way this works is when any - excuse me, a little hiccup.

The hiccups started in 1922 and persisted for a total of 68 years.

Hiccups are usually harmless and go away without any treatment.

Maybe it was only a hiccup in the heat of passion.

However, the tour faced a few hiccups along the way.