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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.
Noun
hoast (plural hoasts)
- (dialectal) A cough.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17:in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].
Etymology 2
From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną (“to cough”).
Verb
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)
- (intransitive, dialect) To cough.
Etymology 3
Variant forms.
Noun
hoast (plural hoasts)
- Obsolete form of host.
Verb
hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)
- Obsolete form of host.
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