hoast

Meanings

Noun

• A cough.

Verb

• To cough.

Origin

• From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti ("a cough"), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste ("a cough"). More at whoost.
• From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta ("to cough"), from Proto-Germanic *hwōstāną ("to cough").
• Variant forms.