phlegmy
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phlegmy (comparative phlegmier, superlative phlegmiest)
- Charged with phlegm.
- His phlegmy cough disgusted everybody on the train.
- 2022, Jenni Fagan, Hex, Polygon, page 42:
- Pockmarks rise with hair all along his arm, and he reaches for a bottle and hacks up a big phlegmy gob of spit.
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charged with phlegm
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