hoast

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost. ==== Alternative forms ==== haust, host ==== Noun ==== hoast (plural hoasts) (dialectal) A cough. === 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) (intransitive, dialect) To cough. === Etymology 3 === Variant forms. ==== Noun ==== hoast (plural hoasts) Obsolete form of host. ==== Verb ==== hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted) Obsolete form of host. === Anagrams === Shota, sotah, Athos, has to, HOTAS, shoat, shota, HATOs, hosta, oaths