hoast

From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.

• haust, host

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. (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 [...].

From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną (“to cough”).

• haust, host

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. (intransitive, dialect) To cough.

Variant forms.

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. Obsolete form of host.

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. Obsolete form of host.

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hosta, oaths, shoat, shota