hoicking

English

Verb

hoicking

  1. present participle and gerund of hoick

Noun

hoicking (uncountable)

  1. The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
      The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
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