hiccoughing
hiccupping

Someone was sobbing, a slow hiccoughing like the dripping of a faucet.

Half an hour later it made that ominous hiccoughing which presaged immediate and final failure.

Hiccoughing, she put her hand to her mouth and lowered her gaze.

In a modern example of mass hysteria, like mass laughing or mass hiccoughing, people have suddenly decided pro football is boring.

She lay quiet for a moment, eyes closed, sighing with relief, and heard the slobbery gurgle of the baby near by and the reassuring sound of Wade's hiccoughing.

She recalled with a shudder how often she had driven the unwilling horse into fields and woods when she heard soldiers approaching, not knowing if they were friends or foes-recalled, too, her anguish lest a cough, a sneeze or Wade's hiccoughing might betray them to the marching men.

Padraic laughed and cried and Conaing had to take him behind the lines and throw cold water on his head until he subsided into happy hiccupping.

I often encountered bands of kakelaars, long-tailed black birds with scimitarlike red bills; the forest canopy resonated with their weird, high-speed hiccupping.

Another critic wrote that: "He gyrates like an exploding Catherine wheel, emitting growls, squeals and what sounds like severe hiccupping".

But if the wire put on the heart's left ventricle is positioned too close to a nerve, the regular electrical impulse it emits can set off involuntary hiccupping.

An earlier stroke had damaged areas of Mr. Shafer's brain stem, Dr. Payne said, somehow setting off the chronic hiccupping, though the precise mechanism is unknown.

Mr. White has expanded his showmanship in all ways: aside from the guitar effects, the stunning clothes, the studied movement, there is a hiccupping, Elvis-like trill in his voice that wasn't there before.