Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of discharging phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing or hawking and spitting; euphemistically, a spitting.
- n. The matter expectorated.
Wiktionary
- n. The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
- n. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
- n. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of coughing up and spitting out
- n. the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)
Examples
“Many survived, and blessed Captain Southcombe, not at first cordially — for the man yet remains to be discovered who is grateful to his doctor — but gradually more and more, and with that healthy action of the human bosom which is called expectoration, whenever grateful memories were rekindled by the smell of tar.”
“Many survived, and blessed Captain Southcombe, not at first cordially -- for the man yet remains to be discovered who is grateful to his doctor -- but gradually more and more, and with that healthy action of the human bosom which is called expectoration, whenever grateful memories were rekindled by the smell of tar.”
“Perhaps Diouf's occasional penchant for expectoration is a little more difficult to defend.”
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“In an unfortunate and wholly predictable electronic expectoration, the headlines and reactions proliferated, slandering author, book, and most of all, subject.”
“Later, Matta said he didn't see the actual expectoration.”
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“Battle royal was waged, amid the smoking of many cigarettes and the expectoration of much tobacco-juice, wherein the tramp successfully held his own, even when a socialist workman sneered, There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert”
“Whether it be through fever and inflammation, cough and expectoration, nausea and vomiting, fainting and comatose states, and even the variety of emotional and mental states, each symptom represents the best efforts of the bodymind in its effort to fight infection and/or adapt to physical and psychological stresses.”
“Aniseed is another valuable remedy for hard dry cough with difficult expectoration.”
“Mrs. Trollope writes of the profound ickiness of wearing floor length dresses in a country where everyone chewed tobacco and very few cared about the final resting place of their expectoration.”
“The Chinese were believed to spread disease by spitting on the street hence a spate of anti-expectoration bylaws.”
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