All my life, I’ve been able to spit directly from the salivary gland. There is a salivary gland directly beneath my tongue. If I open my mouth wide, lift my tongue, and flex the muscles just right, a stream of saliva comes shooting out. This isn’t conventional spitting - there’s no hocking or lip movement, just a squirt of saliva directly from the gland. I can go about 3 feet, and can squirt it 5 or 6 times before the gland dries up. Anyone else do this?
Most often, though, it happens by accident. Usually when I’m talking to or eating with someone else, and a little arc of saliva will just go flying across the table. It’s quite embarrassing.
Most of my friends in 7th grade called it gleeking, although one friend called it “cobra.” I could never do it, and was insanely jealous of those who could.
One day during a test in 9th grade I figured it out, but, alas, it was no longer cool; most people consider it pretty gross.
My students now are fascinated by it. (sigh…I’ve become one of those teachers…)
One thing I just now realized (after doing it repeatedly) is that I make it shoot out of the right front salivary gland; I’m incapable of having it shoot out the left.
We all called it gleeking too in junior high. Everybody I knew could do it. Just scrape the tip of your tongue against your teeth and kind of thrust. I use it to wet my mouth when I’m thirsty and don’t have anything to drink. If you’re too thirsty (dehydrated) though, it won’t work.
