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.

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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: […]

   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 Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 384

   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. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.

   2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph

2. Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. (of livestock or dogs)

   […] 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

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   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

   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.

   1926, Warren Miller, The American Hunting Dog, New York: Appleton, Chapter , p. 31