Noun: hoast
| Singular | hoast |
| Plural | hoasts |
Sample Sentences
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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 [...]. [1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17:]
Nouns inflected like hoast
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost. See: Middle English Nouns '
*host', Old Norse Nouns '
hósti', Icelandic Nouns '
hósti', Swedish Nouns '
hosta', Danish Nouns '
hoste'.