Saterland Frisian

Noun

Hoast f

1. haste

Derived terms

• hoastich

English

Alternative forms

• haust, host

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 [...].

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To cough.

Etymology 3

Variant forms.

Noun

hoast ‎(plural hoasts)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of host.