Expectorate

Definition: Expectorate

Expectorate

Verb

1. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs.

Date "expectorate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonyms: Expectorate

Synonyms: cough out (v), cough up (v), spit out (v), spit up (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ejection	Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Expectorate

English words defined with "expectorate": Expectorated, Expectorating. (references)

"Expectorate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Expectorate" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "expectorate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pështyj gëlbazë (spit phlegm), pështyj (spit, splutter), nxjerr gëlbazë. (various references)

Arabic		‏تنخم (expectoration, hawk, sputum), ‏طرد البلغم, ‏بصق (shell out, spit, spitting, splutter, sputter). (various references)

Bulgarian		храча (spit), плюя (spit), изхрачвам, изкашлям (cough out). (various references)

Czech		plivat (gob, spit). (various references)

Danish		ekspektoration (expectoration), ophosten (expectoration). (various references)

Dutch		expectoratie (expectoration), ophoesten (expectoration), ontboezeming (expectoration). (various references)

Finnish		sylkeä (spit). (various references)

French		expectorer (expectoration). (various references)

German		speien (belch, spew, spit, spout, vomit), ausspucken (cough out, cough up, disgorge, pour out, regurgitate, spew out, spit, spit out, to disgorge, to spit out), Abhusten (expectoration). (various references)

Greek		πτύω (spit), πτύελα (expectoration), φτύνω (cough up, spit), απόχρεμμα (expectoration), απόχρεμψις (expectoration), αποπτύω. (various references)

Hebrew		לירוק (spit, sputter), לחכך (rub, scratch, spit), לרקוק (spew, spit). (various references)

Hungarian		kiköp (spat, spit out, to spew, to spit, to spout). (various references)

Indonesian		mendahak, meludah (spit). (various references)

Italian		espettorazione (expectoration), espettorare. (various references)

Manx		shelley (expectoration, phlegm, saliva, slaver, spit, spittle, sputum), ceau shelley (salivate, spit). (various references)

Norwegian		hoste opp. (various references)

Pig Latin		expectorateay

Portuguese		expectorar (cough up, expectoration, spit). (various references)

Romanian		expectora (cough, spit), scuipa (gob, spew, spit, sputter). (various references)

Russian		отхаркивать (cough out, cough up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskašljati (cough out, cough up). (various references)

Spanish		expectorar (cough up). (various references)

Swedish		spotta ut (spit out), hosta upp (cough up). (various references)

Thai		ขากเสมหะ (hock a luggie). (various references)

Turkish		tükürmek (spit, spit at smb., spit on smb., spit out), kan tükürmek, balgam çıkarmak (hawk up), öksürerek çıkarmak (cough out, cough up). (various references)

Ukranian		відхаркувати. (various references)

Welsh		poeri (spit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "expectorate": expectorated, expectorates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Expectorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expactorate, expecterate, expectrotate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-o-p-r-t-t-x"
	-3 letters: etcetera, execrate, operetta.
	-4 letters: coexert, exacter, exactor, excerpt, excreta, excrete, exocarp, extract, ocreate, operate, pectate, pretext, proette, protect, treetop.
	-5 letters: capote, captor, carpet, cartop, cerate, coatee, coater, coaxer, copter, cortex, cottae, cottar, cotter, create, ecarte, except, expect, expert, export, extort, ocreae, oxcart, pattee, patter, petter, potter, preact, pretax, protea, recept, repeat, retape, rotate.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-o-p-r-t-t-x"
	+1 letter: expectorated, expectorates.
	+4 letters: overexpectation.
	+5 letters: overexpectations.
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