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throaty

/ˈθɹəʊti/

throaty adjective: produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.

Adjective

throaty (comparative throatier, superlative throatiest)

  1. Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
    • A throaty cough.
    • The concluſion of this rambling Letter ſhall be a rhime of certain hard throary^([sic – meaning throaty]) Words which I was taught lately, and they are accounted the difficulteſt in all the whole Caſtilian Language, inſomuch that he who is able to pronounce them, is accounted Buen Romanciſta, a...1622 August 10 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “LXXIII. To Cap. T. P. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] Humphrey...
  2. Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. (of livestock or dogs)
    • Qualities exceptionable in a Herefordshire ox, for grazing. […] The neck short, thick, coarse; loaded with leather and dewlap; “throaty.”1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, page 248
    • […] his flock is not so throaty as Merinos were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.1849 April, “Col. Randall’s Merino Sheep”, in American Agriculturalist, volume 8, number 4, page 120

throaty meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

throaty in Urdu

گلے سے

throaty in Malayalam

husky, gravelly, rough
കണ്ഠ്യമായ, കണ്ഠസ്വരമായ, മുഴക്കമുള്ള, അഗാധത യിൽനിന്നു വരും പോലെയുള്ള, ചരലിലിട്ടുരക്കും പോലെയുള്ള, ചിലമ്പിയ

Examples of throaty in a sentence

  • But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of the Niagara.1911, Pauline Johnson, “The Tulameen Trail”, in Legends of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, page 47:
  • We could hear a motor running; it seemed too deep and throaty a motor to be the squad car, and after we passed the high school, the engine noise grew louder.1989, John Irving, chapter 3, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 129:
  • Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph:

Forms of throaty

comparativethroatier
superlativethroatiest

Origin of throaty

From throat + -y.

Words formed from throaty

Words that rhyme with throaty

Questions about throaty

What does throaty mean?
Throaty means produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
What is throaty in Urdu?
Throaty in Urdu is گلے سے. See Throaty meaning in Urdu.
How do you use throaty in a sentence?
But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of the Niagara.
What part of speech is throaty?
Throaty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce throaty?
Throaty is pronounced /ˈθɹəʊti/.

Words near throaty in the dictionary

  1. throatstrap
  2. throatstraps
  3. throatward
  4. throatwort
  5. throatworts
  6. throaty
  7. throb
  8. throbbed
  9. throbber
  10. throbbers
  11. throbbeth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: throaty (page history and authors); throaty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); throaty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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