Crossword-Solution: PHLEGM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phlegm | a. | One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. |
| Phlegm | a. | Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages. |
| Phlegm | a. | A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. |
| Phlegm | a. | Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PHLEGM (5)
These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body.
From the exhilaration of the start, to the happy phlegm of the arrival, the change is certainly great.
Can't you give me something to cut the phlegm?" The doctor, a grave-faced young man, put his fingers to the furrowed, blue-corded wrist.
Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs.
Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don’t think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping.
Quotes with PHLEGM (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.
There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mi…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1985–2022).