Word of the Day:
expectorate
What It Means
To cough up fluid from the lungs.
To spit.
Expectorate in Context
“These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .”
Did You Know?
From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).
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