expectorate
Cough something up
Expectorate is a formal or medical term for spitting out phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs: The doctor asked if he had been expectorating blood.
Cough syrups are sometimes labeled as expectorants, meaning they help loosen and expel mucus.
Outside medical contexts, expectorate sounds deliberately euphemistic or humorous: No expectorating on the sidewalk.
Expelled mouth moisture
- ejectThrow out forcibly
- expelRemove forcibly from membership
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- hawkTaloned predatory bird
hock · cough up · clear · spray · spew · project · propel · dislodge
Mouth's digestive secretion
Crude or indecent
- uncouthLacking good manners
- rudeOffensively ill-mannered
- crassCrudely lacking refinement
- unrefinedNot processed or polished
impolite · unseemly · indecorous · offensive · disgusting · inappropriate · public · sidewalk
Expelled lung mucus
- phlegmViscous airway secretion
- mucusProtective bodily secretion
- coughExplosive airway clearing
- bronchitisInflamed airway disease
tuberculosis · respiratory · pulmonologist · bronchial · lungs · pneumonia · mucolytic · trachea
spit
Expelled mouth moisture
hawk · hock · cough up · clear · spray · spew · project · propel · dislodge · forcefully
saliva
Mouth's digestive secretion
vulgar
Crude or indecent
unrefined · impolite · unseemly · indecorous · offensive · disgusting · inappropriate · public · sidewalk · spittoon
sputum
Expelled lung mucus
bronchitis · tuberculosis · respiratory · pulmonologist · bronchial · lungs · pneumonia · mucolytic · trachea · asthma
clear
Without obstruction or fog
unburden · decongest · loosen · therapeutic · cleansing · productive · cathartic
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
- mucusmucus, snot, phlegm, boogers, mucin