expectorate
verb (used without object)
to eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit.
expectorator
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a word derived from
expectorate.
Example Sentences
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The true expectorator is within, laved in his own home-made suds.
From My Studio Neighbors by William Hamilton Gibson
But the true expectorator is within, laved in his own froth, his beak embedded in the juicy stem, and his suds factory continually at work.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson
