different between hoast vs roast

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. (dialectal) A cough.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English *hosten, from Old Norse hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n? (“to cough”).

Alternative forms

• haust, host

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. (intransitive, dialect) To cough.

Etymology 3

Variant forms.

Noun

hoast (plural hoasts)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Verb

hoast (third-person singular simple present hoasts, present participle hoasting, simple past and past participle hoasted)

1. Obsolete form of host.

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hosta, oaths, shoat, shota

English

Etymology

From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *r?stijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijan? (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /?o?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Verb

roast (third-person singular simple present roasts, present participle roasting, simple past and past participle roasted)

1. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.

   Coordinate terms: bake, boil, broil, fry, grill, poach, toast

2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
3. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat

4. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously

6. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.

7. (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

Derived terms

• roasting ear
• roasting jack

Translations

Noun

roast (plural roasts)

1. A cut of meat suited to roasting
2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.

4. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.

Derived terms

• nut roast
• roastmaster

Translations

Adjective

roast (not comparable)

1. Having been cooked by roasting.

   Synonym: roasted

2. (figuratively) Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

Derived terms

• roast beef

Translations

See also

• barbecue
• chargrill
• grill
• joint
• roasties

Anagrams

• Astor, Astro, Roats, Sarot, Troas, artos, astro, astro-, ratos, rotas, sorta, taros, tarso-

Estonian

Noun

roast

1. elative singular of roog