throaty
English
Etymology
Adjective
throaty (comparative throatier, superlative throatiest)
- (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
- A throaty cough.
- 1622 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “LXXIII. To Cap. T. P. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 384:
- The concluſion of this rambling Letter ſhall be a rhime of certain hard throary[sic – meaning throaty] Words which I was taught lately, and they are accounted the difficulteſt in all the whole Caſtilian Language, inſomuch that he who is able to pronounce them, is accounted Buen Romanciſta, a good ſpeaker of Spaniſh: […]
- 1911, Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, “The Tulameen Trail,” p. 47,[1]
- But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of the Niagara.
- 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 3, p. 129,[2]
- We could hear a motor running; it seemed too deep and throaty a motor to be the squad car, and after we passed the high school, the engine noise grew louder.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012),[3]
- Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
- (of livestock or dogs) Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.
- 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, p. 248,[4]
- Qualities exceptionable in a Herefordshire ox, for grazing. […] The neck short, thick, coarse; loaded with leather and dewlap; “throaty.”
- 1849, “Col. Randall’s Merino Sheep,” American Agriculturalist, Volume 8, No. 4, April 1849, p. 120,[5]
- […] his flock is not so throaty as Merinos were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.
- 1926, Warren Miller, The American Hunting Dog, New York: Appleton, Chapter , p. 31,[6]
- In 1558 the beagle had become well patronised by royalty and was painted by court painters, so that we know his type to have been already well established, a small hound with long, drooping ears, short pudgy body and throaty neck.
- 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, p. 248,[4]