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To: edzo4

Just a point of English for your edification.

You hawk a book. You hock a ring at the pawnshop. You can also hock a loogie, but the spelling on that is not standardized.


423 posted on 05/05/2018 12:07:17 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: Defiant
You can also hock a loogie, but the spelling on that is not standardized.

We say "hork" or "hork up" a loogie, but that may be a regional dialect. "Lung oyster" is also part of the vernacular.

But I digress from "All Things Q"

442 posted on 05/05/2018 12:59:40 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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