Crossword Dictionary

hoarse

hoarse - a 

deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion.

Wordplays

synonyms

coarse, croaking, croaky, grating, gravel, gravelly, gruff, husky, rasping, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty

sentence examples

“She could only speak in a hoarse whisper.”

"The cold made me a little hoarse."

“And the symptoms that respondents could select range widely, from a blocked nose or a hoarse voice to severe fatigue.”

Merriam-Webster

etymology

hoarse (adj.)

late 14c., hors, earlier hos, from Old English has "hoarse," from Proto-Germanic *haisa- (source also of Old Saxon hes, Old Norse hass, Dutch hees, Old High German heisi, German heiser "hoarse"), perhaps originally meaning "dried out, rough." The unetymological -r- is difficult to explain; it is first attested c. 1400, but it may indicate an unrecorded Old English variant *hars. It also appears in a variant form in Middle Dutch.