Hiccough in a sentence as a noun

Painting it like it was a drop in the bucket hiccough is just flat wrong.

Temporary hiccough on my end I guess, its working now.

I'm sure that the ~richest company on Earth could have consumed VirnetX without a hiccough.

A lot of people on twitter complaining about this but I've not seen a single hiccough in service.

I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not you,On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?Well done!

Hiccough in a sentence as a verb

A slight hiccough on the road between two iron rockets means someone's paying out an insurance premium and getting some fender repairs.

The biggest Canadian corporate disaster this century swamps this hiccough from BlackBerry.

Privacy is an engineering problem as much or more than a policy problem, and Dropbox, still being a relatively small company, is obviously going to have a hiccough or two before things are rock-solid.

There was also a meme going around that one can spell "potato" like "Ghoughphtheightteeau" with the following explanation:- gh for P as in "hiccough"- ough for O as in "dough"- phth for T as in "phthisis"- eigh for A as in "neighbour"- tte for T as in "gazette"- eau for O as in "plateau"edit: formatting

Hiccough definitions

noun

(usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion; "how do you cure the hiccups?"

See also: hiccup singultus

verb

breathe spasmodically, and make a sound; "When you have to hiccup, drink a glass of cold water"

See also: hiccup