loogies

Expectorated mucus wads

Loogies is the plural of loogie, a glob of saliva and phlegm hawked up from the throat: He hocked a loogie onto the sidewalk.

The word is informal and mildly crude, evoking schoolyard grossness.

To hock a loogie is to forcefully expel one, usually with a distinctive throat-clearing sound.

expectorating

phlegm

Viscous airway secretion

  • spitExpelled mouth moisture
  • hockingPledging goods for loans
  • mucusProtective bodily secretion

clearing throat · spitting · saliva · hawking · coughing up · ejecting · expelling · launching · projecting · hurling

illness

cold

Low temperature state

  • fluContagious respiratory illness
  • congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
  • infectionPathogen invasion causing illness

bronchitis · sinusitis · cough · sick · allergies · postnasal drip · chest cold · virus · inflammation · recovery

schoolyard

gross-out

Deliberately disgust someone

sidewalk · target · boys · recess · juvenile · immature · playground · showing off · competition · buddies

Categories
Opposites
bodily expulsion vs. retention

loogiesswallowing

Ingesting via throat muscles

suppression · inhaling · gulping · keeping it in

crude/gross vs. refined oral output

loogieskisses

Lip-to-lip contact

breath mints · whispers · sweet nothings

wet/viscous expectorant vs. dry output

loogiesdry cough

Throat clearing without mucus

sighs · dry heaves

Family

loogie

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG