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Definition of Expectorator

1. Noun. A person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expectorator

Literary usage of Expectorator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rambles and Scrambles in North and South America by Edward Robert Sullivan (1852)
"I would much rather be shut up with a madman than with a genuine expectorator. The steamers on the Mississippi are on the most gigantic scale, ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1899)
"... then habituated, because one free expectorator, unaware of the presence of bacilli in his sputum, can yield material enough, when dried and incorporated ..."

3. Wisconsin Medical Journal by State Medical Society of Wisconsin (1908)
"... point upon which these arguments hang, yet there is probably a strong desire to be rid of the disgusting and habitual expectorator of tobacco juice as ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Objectionable and indefensible as it was at all times, with steamboat saloons closed and artificially heated, the expectorator's filthy habit became ..."

5. Excursion Through the Slave States: From Washington on the Potomac, to the by George William Featherstonhaugh (1844)
"... all would be to be compelled to pass the night on the same bed with another man, and that man a stranger, a tobacco eater, and perpetual expectorator. ..."

6. Public Health Papers and Reports by American Public Health Association (1906)
"It is not necessary that every traveler should be classed as an offending expectorator, but it is necessary to recognize the fact that there are travelers ..."

7. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"... suffered in this process, though I did not discover it till afterwards. The Boer is an immense, but, unlike the Yankee, an inartistic expectorator, ..."

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