hoast

See also: Hoast and hóast

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. (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

From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną (“to cough”).

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. (intransitive, dialect) To cough.

Etymology 3

Variant forms.

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hosta, oaths, shoat, shota