throatiness

== English == === Etymology === From throaty +‎ -ness. === Noun === throatiness (uncountable) (with reference to a voice) The property of being throaty; roughness, coarseness. (with reference to a sheep or dog) The property of having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. 1859, “Stonehenge” (John Henry Walsh), The Dog in Health and Disease, London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, Chapter 3, p. 49,[5] Both, however, were large, bony hounds, with long falling ears, but the southern hounds had absolute dewlaps, or at all events such excessive throatiness as to make them rejected in the present day on that account alone.