hoasthoast means A cough. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.EtymologyFrom Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.nounA 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 [...].”verbTo cough.