throaty
Adjective
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Adjective
throaty (comparative throatier, superlative throatiest)
- (of a sound) Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.
- A throaty cough.
- 1622 July 31, James Howell, “LXXIII. To Cap. T. P. from Madrid”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume II, 3rd edition, London: Printed for Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, OCLC 84295516 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049862587;view=1up;seq=404 page 384]:
- The concluſion of this rambling Letter ſhall be a rhime of certain hard throary{{sic
- 1911, E. Pauline Johnson, Legends of Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, “The Tulameen Trail,” p. 47,
- 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.
- 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 3, p. 129,
- 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.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012),
- 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. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.
- (of livestock or dogs) Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.
- 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, p. 248,
- Qualities exceptionable in a Herefordshire ox, for grazing. […] The neck short, thick, coarse; loaded with leather and dewlap; “throaty.”
- 1849, “Col. Randall’s Merino Sheep,” American Agriculturalist, Volume 8, No. 4, April 1849, p. 120,
- […] his flock is not so throaty as Merino were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.
- 1926, Warren Miller, The American Hunting Dog, New York: Appleton, Chapter , p. 31,
- In 1558 the beagle had become well patronised by royalty and was painted by court painters, so that we know his type to have been already well established, a small hound with long, drooping ears, short pudgy body and throaty neck.
- 1789, Mr. Marshall, The Rural Economy of Glocestershire, London: G. Nicol, p. 248,
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