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

Mocke not Enobarbus, I tell you true: Best you saf't the bringer Out of the hoast, I must attend mine Office, Or would haue done't my selfe.

From Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare, William

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

While thus the lave o’ mankind’s lost, O’ Scotland still God maks His boast— Puir Scotland, on whase barren coast A score or twa Auld wives wi’ mutches an’ a hoast Still keep His law.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Now colic grips, an' barkin hoast May kill us a'; For loyal Forbes' charter'd boast Is ta'en awa?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert