hoast
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *host, *hoste, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.
Alternative forms
Noun
hoast (plural hoasts)
- (dialectal) A cough.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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 [...].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *hosten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną (“to cough”).
Alternative forms
Verb
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)
- (intransitive, dialect) To cough.
Etymology 3
Variant forms.
Noun
hoast (plural hoasts)
Verb
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)