hoarse

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hoarse^¹

/hɔːs/ UK
/hoːs/ Australia, British, New Zealand
/hoɾs/ Scotland
/hoːs/
/hoəs/ Eastern New England
/hɔəs/ UK, obsolete
/hɔːrs/ Early Modern

Sounds like horse (horse–hoarse merger) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)s

Where it comes from

From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).

adjective hoarser · hoarsest

Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc. I am old and my voice is hoarse […]

verb hoarses · hoarsing · hoarsed

uncommon To utter hoarsely; to croak. "[...] Madame! Is—that—your—horse?!" "Ain't no horse!" she hoarses. "Thassa thuruly bred Great Dane!" The thuruly bred Great Dane's balls shine like big , bald onions as he squeezes to deposit 4 1⁄2 pounds of vitamin - enriched apcray near the lamp-post.

hoarse^²

noun hoarses

obsolete Obsolete spelling of horse The 15. 3 mo. 1668 - An act maid in a Towne Meting to provent hoarses and meares from doinge damage, as foloeth. All such hoarses and meares, as comonly kepes about the towne, or in the towne stretes, or comonly doth goe in to the towne neck, […]

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adj afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice

Español	ronco, afónico, con voz tomada
中文	粗啞 /粗哑 cūyǎ, 沙啞 /沙哑 shāyǎ, 嘶啞 /嘶哑 sīyǎ
Português	rouco
Français	enroué
Deutsch	heiser
Italiano	rauco, atono
Ελληνικά	βραχνός vrachnós
Română	răgușit
Русский	хри́плый hriply, охри́пший ohripshiy
Tiếng Việt	khàn
العربية	مَبْحُوح mabḥūḥ
עברית	צרוד tzarud

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@misc{hoarse_2026,
  title = {hoarse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hoarse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}