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What does phlegmy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word phlegmy? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Charged with phlegm.
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A stout woman in her sixties who had begun to talk in a rich, phlegmy rattle to Sabri about marching in the demonstrations following the Charlie Hebdo attacks was interrupted by a red-faced man trailing a malted smell.
Can you imagine that a man could stand calmly and hear himself charged with having a phlegmy cough?
But as I've smelled the dioxins in my bedroom over the last month, as I've felt their sting in my eyes and heard my children's rasping, phlegmy throats in the morning, I've come to believe we have no choice.
The silence was doubly odd because Bringweather wasn't even harrumphing or clearing his phlegmy throat.
Geoffrey Rush, playing the villainous, pop-eyed seadog Barbossa in this enjoyable romp, gives it his best shot, a phlegmy gargle of rage.
He has a smoker's laugh, abrupt and phlegmy, though he gave up cigarettes, and alcohol, more than a decade ago.

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