With this bout of sickness, I’ve been doing a little bit of research online. A new favourite word of mine is expectorate. I’ve seen the word expectorant on boxes of cough syrup before, but never really paid attention to it. However, in the past day or two when I read the etymology I was sort of surprised at how obvious it was.
So, from Merriam-Webster, to expectorate means: “to discharge matter from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting.” The word is built on the stem ex-, meaning “out,” and -pector, meaning “chest.” Makes sense, yeah?
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