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.
   • 1577, Eusebius, translated by Meredith Hanmer, “Of the Vtter Besieging of the Iewes after the Passion and Resurrection of Christ”, in The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book 3, page 37:

     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 ſonne Titus the warres, in hande agaynſte the Ievves.

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

1. Obsolete form of host.

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