hocking loogies

[Joel S. Berson]

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


>JL
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>On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > Those of us who still pronounce "open o's" recognize that the
> customary spelling of the gerund is "hawking," which corresponds
> with OED's "hawk" v.3.
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> > --Charlie
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> > I don't see this in the OED. Is there another way to express the
> action of gathering in the nose the mucus required to make a solid
> mass, surrounded by liquid, in preparation for spitting?
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> > The Columnist Manifesto wonders whether it makes sense to have a
> standardized spelling for this
> (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FgAD879HGuQJ:thecolumnistmanifesto.blogspot.com/2005/07/how-do-you-spell-loogie.html+%22hock+a+loogie%22&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us).
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