throaty

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English throat Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English throaty From throat + -y.

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

   “A throaty cough.”

   “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: […]”

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.””

   “[…] his flock is not so throaty as Merinos were formerly bred, as he considers throatiness objectionable.”