Definitions for phlegm

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Spelling: [flem]

IPA: /flɛm/

Phlegm is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in phlegm (eghlmp).

Definitions for phlegm

noun

1. the thick mucus secreted in the respiratory passages and discharged through the mouth, especially that occurring in the lungs and throat passages, as during a cold.
2. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing sluggishness or apathy.
3. sluggishness, indifference, or apathy.
4. self-possession, calmness, or composure.

Origin of phlegm

1350-1400; Middle English fleem Middle French flemme Late Latin phlegma Greek phlégma flame, phlegmatic humor, equivalent to phlég(ein) to burn + -ma resultative noun suffix

Examples for phlegm

I am always annoyed with phlegm, but to-day I seem to snivel more than usual.

But as he has resigned his own elephant, as if it were phlegm, who will bring back that animal?

So after my father died I wrote a book, Fathers and Sons, with the intention of casting the Wavian phlegm out of my system.

One of Popes precepts is, to write with fury and correct with phlegm.

A fellow of your phlegm should find pleasure in the contemplation of cabbages.

I was never sure whether this was phlegm or the onset of lunacy.

There should then be a loosening of the phlegm, and a lessening of the flow through the lungs.

Let melancholy rule supreme, Choler preside, or blood, or phlegm.

There is a third class of diseases which are produced, some by wind and some by phlegm and some by bile.

Under Teuton phlegm lies an hysteria that rivals that of the Latin races.