Word.ws English Dictionary

hoasts

hoasts is the plural of hoast.

hoasts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hoast.

Meaning of hoast

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

  1. (dialectal) A cough.
    • 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

See all 2 meanings of hoast

Questions about hoasts

What is hoasts the plural of?
Hoasts is the plural of hoast.

Words near hoasts in the dictionary

  1. hoast
  2. hoasted
  3. hoasting
  4. hoastman
  5. hoastmen
  6. hoasts
  7. hoatching
  8. Hoath
  9. hoatzin
  10. hoatzins
  11. hoax

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hoasts (page history and authors); hoast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hoasts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoasts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.