phlegmy, a.
(ˈflɛmɪ)
Forms: see phlegm.
[f. phlegm + -y.]
1. Of the nature of or consisting of phlegm, mucous; containing or characterized by phlegm.
| c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health I j, The stoppynges of the leuer that comethe of grosse and fleymy humors. 1620 Venner Via Recta iii. 57 It..breedeth a clammy, and fleamy nourishment. 1678 Anne Bradstreet Poems (1875) 16 The flegmy constitution I uphold. 1739 R. Bull tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 209 Now from thy Lungs hawk up the phlegmy Load. 1891 Daily News 26 Dec. 5/5 A cold, accompanied by a phlegmy cough. |
† b. Watery; moist: cf. phlegm 2. Obs.
| 1599 H. Buttes Diets Drie Dinner P iv, [The mid-air] spits out watry reums amaine, As phleamy snow, and haile, and sheerer raine. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 83 The gross phlegmy part of Grass. |
2. Of mental disposition: = phlegmatic 2.
| 1607 Markham Caval. i. 25 Such as out of their flemye womanishnesse seeke for such secrets. 1645 Milton Colast. Wks. 1851 IV. 362 Rather then spend words with this fleamy clodd of an Antagonist. 1892 Pall Mall G. 29 Dec. 1/2 Mild as milk, they hobnob with the phlegmy Saxon. |