hoast

British  

/ host /

noun

1. a cough

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verb

1. to cough

Etymology

Origin of hoast

from Old Norse

Example Sentences

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

But for the head, in soueraigntie did boast, It Captayne was, director of alarms,   Whose rashness, if it hazarded an ill,   Not hee alone but all the hoast did spill.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Hakluyt, Richard

Ivery time I heerd the owd man hoast I thought he were boun' to dee.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William

Heere Father, take the shadow of this Tree For your good hoast: pray that the right may thriue: If euer I returne to you againe, Ile bring you comfort    Glo.

From King Lear by Shakespeare, William

Lairdie has anither coat, a brawer yin, and he lent me the auld yin because the nichts is cauld, and I hae a hoast ma’sel! 

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew