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Heast vs Hoast - What's the difference?

heast | hoast |

As nouns the difference between heast and hoast

is that heast is while hoast is (dialectal) a cough or hoast can be .

As a verb hoast is

(lb) to cough or hoast can be .

heast

English

Noun

    • hoast

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A cough.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 17:
  • *: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 [...].

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To cough.

    • Etymology 3

    Variant forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)