hoicking
English edit
Verb edit
hoicking
- present participle and gerund of hoick
Noun edit
hoicking (uncountable)
- The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
- The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.