singult

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin singultus.

Noun

singult (plural singults)

1. (obsolete) A sob.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:

     There an huge heape of singults did oppresse / His strugling soule […]

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Anagrams

• ingluts, lusting, lutings, sutling