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present participle and gerund of hoick examples
uncountable
The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out. quotations examples
The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115