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hoast¹

Where it comes from

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 hoasts · haust · host

  1. dialectal A cough. 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 [...].

hoast²

Where it comes from

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

verb hoasts · hoasting · hoasted · haust · host

  1. dialectal, intransitive To cough.

hoast³

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Variant forms.

noun hoasts

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of host After that Nero had raygned thirtene yeares: Otho and Galba one yeare, and ſix monethes: Veſpaſianus was counted a potent Pꝛince in Iudæa, amonge the armyes appoynted againſt the Ievves, and being pꝛoclaymed Emperour of the hoaſt that there was, foꝛthe with he is ſent to Rome, committing vnto his ſo

verb hoasts · hoasting · hoasted

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of host

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@misc{hoast_2026,
  title = {hoast},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hoast},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}