What is Bucoughke?
1.
The circumstance of being surrounded by sick people who refuse to stop spewing airborne pathogens at you. (From
"Julian could not avoid the tightening circle of bucoughke at the office. Everyone was sick, and hacking up stuff that he felt certain was floating throughout the enclosed space. It was only a matter of time before some of it spattered, however invisibly, into his upper respiratory tract."
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