hoast

/ host /

noun

1. a cough

verb

1. to cough

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoast¹

from Old Norse

Example Sentences

“There’s something in that wind and in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death. It’s in the air; I feel it comin’.

From Literature

“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

In books and in plays about Scotland you get the idea that we 'pech' and we 'hoast,' and talk constantly about ministers, and hoard our pennies.

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