- a variation of horehound.
hoarhound
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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While our spit swam over hoarhound or peppermint, we’d hear the floorboards creak in the closet, then a silence, then a big “H-rumph!” and a big satisfied “Ah-h-h-h!”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Blood will tell, so the hoarhound joined forces with the dogberry and chased the catnip up my family tree.
From You Should Worry Says John Henry by Hugh McHugh
I'm goin' to fix her up some hoarhound an' elecampane quick's the ground's nice an' warm an' roots livens up a grain more.
From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett
I don't know nothing about no herbs, they used for diseases; only boneset and hoarhound tea for colds and croup.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
When the sad grey man known to the children as the Miser, and invested with mysterious and awful powers, stopped to buy some hoarhound drops, he wished him a cheery good afternoon.
From The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man by Mary Finley Leonard
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