Expectoration

Definitions: Expectoration

Expectoration

Noun

1. The process of coughing up and spitting out.

2. The act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva).

Date "expectoration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Etymology: Expectoration \Ex*pec`to*ra"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression expectoration.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Expectoration

Synonyms: spit (n), spitting (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Expectoration

English words defined with "expectoration": Anacathartic ♦ expectorant, expectorator ♦ Sputation. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Expectoration" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (expectoration).

Domain	Usage
Clever	Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Expectoration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Expectoration" is used about 10 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
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

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 "expectoration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nxjerrje gëlbaze, kollitje, gëlbazë (phlegm, sputum). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفث (breathe, emit, erupt, expel, utter), ‏نخامة (sputum), ‏تنخم (expectorate, hawk, sputum), ‏تنخع, ‏دواء منخم. (various references)

Bulgarian		храчка (gob, spit, spittle, sputum), храчене (spit), плюнка (saliva, spit, spittle, sputum), плюене, изхрачване, изкашляне (hawk). (various references)

Czech		plivání. (various references)

Danish		expectoration, ekspektoration (expectorate), opspytning, ophostning, ophosten (expectorate). (various references)

Dutch		expectoratio, expectoratie (expectorate), ophoesten (expectorate), ontboezeming (expectorate). (various references)

Finnish		yskös (sputum), sylki (saliva, spittle, sputum). (various references)

French		expectoration (expectorate). (various references)

German		Expektoration, Expectoratio, Abhusten (expectorate). (various references)

Greek		έκπτυση, πτύελα (expectorate), απόχρεμμα (expectorate), απόχρεμψις (expectorate). (various references)

Hebrew		יריק�" (spit, spitting). (various references)

Hungarian		köpködés (spitting, splutter). (various references)

Italian		espettorazione (expectorate), anacatarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		去痰 , 喀痰 (sputum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょた�" (exaggerated talk), かくた�" (sputum). (various references)

Manx		shelley (expectorate, phlegm, saliva, slaver, spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Pig Latin		expectorationay

Portuguese		expectorar (cough up, expectorate, spit), expectoração (expectorate, expedience, gob, hawk, sputum), escarrar (cough up, gob, spit). (various references)

Romanian		expectorare (spit), expectoraţie (spit, spittle), flegmã (phlegm, sputum). (various references)

Russian		экспекторация (sputum), отхаркивание (spitting), мокрота (phlegm, soddenness, sputum). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iskašljavanje. (various references)

Spanish		expectoración (expectorate). (various references)

Swedish		upphostning, upphostande, spott (saliva, scorn, spittle), slem (mucus, phlegm, slime). (various references)

Turkish		tükürme (spit, spitting), balgam (indifference, mucus, phlegm, pituitary, sputum). (various references)

Ukranian		відхаркування. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự nhổ (evulsion), sự khạc (spit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "expectoration": expectorations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "expectoration" (pronounced 'Ex*pec`to*ra"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t-t-x"
	-2 letters: expectation, expectorant, exportation.
	-3 letters: excerption, execration, extraction, protection, xenotropic.
	-4 letters: carnotite, cooperate, crepitant, crepitate, entoproct, exception, excoriate, excretion, expectant, extirpate, extortion, extricate, intercept, neocortex, operation, orientate, patienter, pectinate, peritonea, protonate, reception.
	-5 letters: anoretic, anorexic, aperient, apocrine, atropine, caponier, carotene, centiare, conepate, contrite, coparent, copatron, coronate, corotate, creatine, creation, entrepot, entropic, erection, exaction, excitant, exertion.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-t-t-x"
	+1 letter: expectorations.
	+2 letters: overexpectation.
	+3 letters: overexpectations.
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