phlegmy
adjEtymology From phlegm + -y.
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Charged with phlegm.
- His phlegmy cough disgusted everybody on the train.
- Pockmarks rise with hair all along his arm, and he reaches for a bottle and hacks up a big phlegmy gob of spit.2022, Jenni Fagan, Hex, Polygon, page 42:
- Derived terms
- phlegmily, phlegminess
- Related terms
- phlegmatic