Throaty

//ˈθɹəʊti// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat.

    "A throaty cough."

  2. 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.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    sounding as if pronounced low in the throat wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
lowaccentedalveolarapicalapico-alveolarapico-dental

Example

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"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 good ſpeaker of Spaniſh: […]"

Etymology

From throat + -y.

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