hoicking

English

Verb

hoicking

1. present participle of hoick

Noun

hoicking (uncountable)

1. The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.