A phlegmy discharge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Flannery's chortle quickly became a phlegmy cough. From Wordnik.com. [Little Girl Blue]
He breathed deeply, with a phlegmy tick in his throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
I'm fighting off something icky and chesty and phlegmy. From Wordnik.com. [Brainfog] Reference
She settled in, took a long, phlegmy hit off her inhaler. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient, Strange, and Lovely] Reference
Conklin snorted, a phlegmy sound that wasn't quite a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
A great phlegmy clearing of the throat for such a young man. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Gay Marriage: What Do We Really Mean?] Reference
Mary laughed a phlegmy laugh that sounded more like a cough. From Wordnik.com. [I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone] Reference
She laughed and at some point it segued into a phlegmy cough. From Wordnik.com. [Some Assembly Required] Reference
The guy, Ted, was a middle-aged divorcé with a phlegmy chuckle. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
The phlegmy culprit had to be our resident 4-legged carpet dweller. From Wordnik.com. [funny ... it feels like a Monday] Reference
Both men roared, but their laughter had a dry, phlegmy quality to it. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
My voice came out somewhere between a whiny wheeze and a phlegmy rasp. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
Rhea cried, nearly choking on a phlegmy mixture of coughing and laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
My cold is at that tenacious and phlegmy stage that's so uttlerly disgusting. From Wordnik.com. [phlegmy] Reference
So I can't figure out for the life of me why he is always so g-damned phlegmy. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
The main public room was silent except for various snores and phlegmy wheezings. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
I'm not even phlegmy, it's just that my breathing tube feels so bloody irritated. From Wordnik.com. [11th August '05] Reference
The snoring had been replaced by a phlegmy cough emanating from the back of the trailer. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
He chokes on his ale, coughs a phlegmy, boozy cough: Our Maggie is too useful in the shop. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Amazing Charles Laughton] Reference
He laughed lustily at his own wit, the merriment dissolving into a phlegmy fit of coughing. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
They cried for a long, long time in unbroken, phlegmy sobs, and they muttered and embraced. From Wordnik.com. [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference
He added the phlegmy noise of a rifle shot, grabbed at his chest, and tumbled off the horse. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
Tony puts his head back and laughs, his big phlegmy laugh cracking out around the empty restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [The Grief Benches] Reference
If you're NOT phlegmy, you might want to try those enzymes to take a load off the digestive system. From Wordnik.com. [Milk Chug on Train] Reference
I couldn't possibly take more of your phlegmy voice. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But at the Chevron, it was back to his old phlegmy ways. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
Then DeLillo began, in a surprisingly old and phlegmy voice. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
Fred Thompson's slurred, phlegmy address seemed to last three hours and 24 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Bugs & Cranks] Reference
A phlegmy-sounding man across the aisle barks something that sounds like "Chuck wagon stew.". From Wordnik.com. [Spokesman.com: Latest stories] Reference
However, when I asked the doctor about OS's "phlegmy noises" he had a blank look on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Formula Fed and Flexible Parenting] Reference
She's still horribly phlegmy but has engaged with both day and party in more of her usual style. From Wordnik.com. [Relaxed Parents] Reference
Then the ten-second silence is broken by the phlegmy inhale and then more incoherent screeching. From Wordnik.com. [Deadspin] Reference
“Trouble here?” came C.J. Congden’s phlegmy voice. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
He knuckled his hair, then his eyes, and let go a phlegmy smoker’s cough. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Then there’s that phlegmy feeling you can get in your mouth from drinking milk. From Wordnik.com. [Milk: Some Impartial Facts] Reference
It’s one of the things we do for my little guy when he gets phlegmy and wakes up a lot. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Better, But Not Really | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference
Pruno cleared his phlegmy throat. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcase]
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