"phlegmy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Pockmarks rise with hair all along his arm, and he reaches for a bottle and hacks up a big phlegmy gob of spit.",
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        "Charged with phlegm."
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          "word": "phlegmatic"
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          "sense": "charged with phlegm",
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