singult

English

Etymology

From 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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