• Hoast

    Origin 1

    From Old Norse.

    Full definition of hoast

    Noun

    hoast

    (plural hoasts)
    1. (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.

    Noun

    hoast

    (plural hoasts)
    1. Obsolete form of host

    Verb

    1. Obsolete form of host
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