phlegmy

[ flem-ee ]

adjective

, phlegm·i·er, phlegm·i·est.

1. of, relating to, or characterized by phlegm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phlegmy¹

First recorded in 1540–50; phlegm + -y ¹

Example Sentences

So Ehre and colleagues stripped away the mucus to see how the airway cells fared without this phlegmy trap.

From Science News

A phlegmy cough, my dear lawyer; a complaint which is really most ridiculously absurd!

From Project Gutenberg

Can you imagine that a man could stand calmly and hear himself charged with having a phlegmy cough?

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Gentlemen, I not only declare that my honourable opponent had not a phlegmy cough, but I trust he never will have one.'

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Either he might have said nothing, or contented himself with declaring that I had not the phlegmy cough.

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The other evening at the —— embassy, I asked him, before your wife and the Countess Macgregor, how his phlegmy cough was?

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