throaty

From throat +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɹəʊti/

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throaty (comparative throatier, superlative throatiest)

1. (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.

   A throaty cough.

   • 1622 August 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “LXXIII. To Cap. T. P. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume II, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 384:

     The concluſion of this rambling Letter ſhall be a rhime of certain hard throary Words which I was taught lately, and they are accounted the difficulteſt in all the whole Caſtilian Language, inſomuch that he who is able to pronounce them, is accounted Buen Romanciſta, a good ſpeaker of Spaniſh: […]

   • 1911, Pauline Johnson, “The Tulameen Trail”, in Legends of Vancouver‎, Vancouver, British Columbia, page 47:

     But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of the Niagara.

   • 1989, John Irving, chapter 3, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎, New York: William Morrow, page 129:

     We could hear a motor running; it seemed too deep and throaty a motor to be the squad car, and after we passed the high school, the engine noise grew louder.

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎:

     Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.

2. Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. (of livestock or dogs)
   • 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire‎, London: G. Nicol, page 248:

     Qualities exceptionable in a Herefordshire ox, for grazing. […] The neck short, thick, coarse; loaded with leather and dewlap; “throaty.”

   • 1849 April, “Col. Randall’s Merino Sheep”, in American Agriculturalist‎, volume 8, number 4, page 120:

     […] his flock is not so throaty as Merinos were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.

   • 1926, Warren Miller, The American Hunting Dog‎, New York: Appleton, Chapter , p. 31:

     In 1558 the beagle had become well patronised by royalty and was painted by court painters, so that we know his type to have been already well established, a small hound with long, drooping ears, short pudgy body and throaty neck.

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