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Expectoration   Listen
noun
Expectoration  n.  
1.
The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
2.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.





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"Expectoration" Quotes from Famous Books



... on business thoroughfares. A meerschaum or a wooden pipe is then allowable, but never a clay or a dudeen. The cuspidor is a banished instrument. The filthy custom of tobacco chewing and consequent expectoration can not be tolerated in ...
— The Complete Bachelor - Manners for Men • Walter Germain
... the sharp Tuscan and the mellow Roman; the sibilation of England, the brogue of Ireland, the shibboleth of the Minories, the twang of certain American States, the guttural expectoration of Germany, the nasal emphasis of France, and even the modulated Hindoostanee, and the sonorous ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... velocity, he had intolerable periods of waiting till things were ready. And took to verses, by way of expectorating himself, and keeping down his devils. Not a bad plan, in the circumstances,—especially if you have so wonderful a turn for expectoration by speech. "All bad as Poetry, those Verses?" asks the reader. Well, some of them are not of first-rate goodness. Should have been burnt; or the time marked which they took up, and whether it was ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.—1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Expectoration" :   body process, spit, spitting, forcing out, bodily function, ejection, bodily process


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