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phlegmy, a.|ˈflɛmɪ|
Forms: see phlegm.
[f. phlegm + -y.]
1. Of the nature of or consisting of phlegm, mucous; containing or characterized by phlegm.
c1550Lloyd Treas. Health I j, The stoppynges of the leuer that comethe of grosse and fleymy humors. 1620Venner Via Recta iii. 57 It..breedeth a clammy, and fleamy nourishment. 1678Anne Bradstreet Poems (1875) 16 The flegmy constitution I uphold. 1739R. Bull tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 209 Now from thy Lungs hawk up the phlegmy Load. 1891Daily News 26 Dec. 5/5 A cold, accompanied by a phlegmy cough.
†b. Watery; moist: cf. phlegm 2. Obs.
1599H. Buttes Diets Drie Dinner P iv, [The mid-air] spits out watry reums amaine, As phleamy snow, and haile, and sheerer raine. 1683Tryon Way to Health 83 The gross phlegmy part of Grass.
2. Of mental disposition: = phlegmatic 2.
1607Markham Caval. i. 25 Such as out of their flemye womanishnesse seeke for such secrets. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1851 IV. 362 Rather then spend words with this fleamy clodd of an Antagonist. 1892Pall Mall G. 29 Dec. 1/2 Mild as milk, they hobnob with the phlegmy Saxon. |