What is "phlegmy"

Usage examples of "phlegmy".

Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.

Beedie could think of was that phlegmy chuckle of old Slysaw Bander, the sneering eyes of Byle Bander, the two of them like as root hairs.

The stranger coughed heavily, a phlegmy hack Coren recognized as one of the recent strains of sublevel tuberculosis.

It was a hollow, bronchial sound that turned into a phlegmy smoker's cough.