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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