-verb (used without object)
1. to eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit.
expectorate is an unpleasant word.
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Sleepn |
expectorate is an unpleasant word. |
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Posts: 19297 (11/05/2009 6:43 PM) Most Mysterious '08 |
the definition is, too:
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Posts: 2094 (11/05/2009 6:44 PM) JJB Devil '09
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Posts: 2096 (11/05/2009 6:46 PM) JJB Devil '09
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Posts: 7388 (11/05/2009 6:46 PM) |
It's a word that I've come to understand fully after my sinus infection last week.
Post nasal drip suuuuucks.
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Posts: 19300 (11/05/2009 6:47 PM) Most Mysterious '08 |
since this is a post dedicated to the language arts, does anyone know the origin of the word "hooker"?
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Posts: 33308 (11/05/2009 6:50 PM) Biggest Know It All '09
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How the word hooker came to mean "prostitute" has never been satisfactorily established. Willard R. Espy says that the word harlot is descended from
Old German Hari , "army," and Lot , "loiterer," a camp follower. But hooker, some believe, evolved because British ships used to sail to
the Hook of Holland. Ladies of the night, and perhaps of the day, too, lay in wait (or, as Espy put it, "stood in wait, and lay afterward") to please
their customers. Some authorities subscribe to the belief that a hooker was so called because she ...
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Posts: 20113 (11/05/2009 6:50 PM) |
Why did I just get a visual of Captain Hook doing unseemly things with his hook and a prostitute?
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I actually suffer from the OP's definition. I blow out snot that is neon green and it won't go away.
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Posts: 33310 (11/05/2009 6:51 PM) Biggest Know It All '09
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You and Mands both.
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Posts: 19302 (11/05/2009 6:56 PM) Most Mysterious '08 |
that's obscure.
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