hoast
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.
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Noun edit
hoast (plural hoasts)
- (dialectal) A cough.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17:
- in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną (“to cough”).
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Verb edit
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)
- (intransitive, dialect) To cough.
Etymology 3 edit
Variant forms.
Noun edit
hoast (plural hoasts)
Verb edit
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)