hoast

British  

/ host /

noun

1. a cough

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verb

1. to cough

Etymology

Origin of hoast

from Old Norse

Example Sentences

“Buy a fine toasting-fork for toast, Or fine spice-grater—tools for an hoast; If these in winter be lacking, I say, Your guests will pack, your trade decay.”

From Project Gutenberg

I know, too, when Nathan has finished his meal, as he always puts his empty cup and saucer with a 'clank' into his bread-plate, gives a hard throat 'hoast,' backs his chair away from the table, and says 'Imphm! juist so!' very contentedly and cheerily.

From Project Gutenberg

One was William Randolph Hearst, whose correspondents constantly supply him with expensive but startling scoops,* whose vital pungency has won him more millions of daily readers than any other individual publisher can hoast.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was very busy when I went in, and never noticed me till the hoast took me.

From Project Gutenberg

So, as I listened, I heard very clear outside the house the knocking of my father's feet, and the little hoast he always gave before he tirled at the pin to be let in, when he rode home late from Kirkcudbright.

From Project Gutenberg