Hoast
Origin 1
From Old Norse.
Full definition of hoast
Noun
hoast
(plural hoasts)- (dialectal) A cough.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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 ....
Origin 2
Variant forms.
Verb
- Obsolete form of host