expectoratorn.
/ᵻkˈspɛktəreɪtə/, /ɛkˈspɛktəreɪtə/, U.S. /ᵻkˈspɛktəˌreɪdər/, /ɛkˈspɛktəˌreɪdər/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > expectorant
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1657 N. Culpeper & W. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Idea Pract. Physick iii. 29/2 (heading) Of Expectorators [L. De Expectorantibus].
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 415 Bitter Vetch..is an Expectorator.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 278 There are no such Things as Expectorators..except Volatiles and Balsamics.
1887 Atchinson (Kansas) Daily Champion 24 Dec. 6/4 It [sc. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy] is a splendid expectorator.
2. A person who expectorates or spits.In quot. 1835 in figurative context: a person who produces unpleasant or objectionable writing.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > sputum > person
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1835 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 37 112/2 Volumes of the slaver bound in linen and lettered with the name of the expectorator on the outside.
1898 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 47 463 It does not seem to occur to the expectorators that the practice is loathsome, and I suppose not one of them thinks there is any danger in it.
1929 Times 25 July 9/3 No general or systematic efforts were made to discover the expectorators of tubercle bacilli.
2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Ontario ed.) (Entertainment section) d6 They don't spit like hockey players (who tend to be surprisingly gifted expectorators).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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