hocking loogies

[Dave Wilton]

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/hawk_a_loogie/



-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Joel S. Berson
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:14 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: hocking loogies

At 10/13/2011 08:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>In HDAS - like so many wonders of our language.

Which -- hocking/hawking or loogies?  (I see the latter is in
Urbandictionary, and Wikipedia has a disambiguation page but the
"Mucus" article does not contain the word; but it's not in the OED.)

Joel

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