Loogie (1985)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Jul 5 15:38:09 UTC 2006


 And "hock a louie/loogie".  Thus morphing into a "hocker", as in "don't
step on that hocker".

>
> I've heard "hack a loogie" used as well.  My elementary
> German teacher (a young grad student at UMass) would use that
> phrase when instructing us how to pronounce the final "ch"
> sound.  (He was an excellent teacher, by the way.)
>
>

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