[Ads-l] QOTY Hawk Tuah

[Bill Mullins]

>   Some of us have observed that this should probably really be "hock
>   ptui/ptooie", since both onomatopoeic terms have been in use for spitting
>   sounds for generations at least, but "hawk" and "tuah" have not.

"Hawk", at least, shows up from time to time.



1978 S. King The Stand 25

He produced a big red bandanna, hawked, and spat into it.

https://archive.org/details/stand0000step/page/25/mode/1up?q=hawked


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