throaty, a.
(ˈθrəʊtɪ)
[f. as prec. + -y.]
1. Of vocal sounds, or of the voice: Produced or modified in the throat; guttural; hoarse.
| c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) II. lxxiii. 112 A rime of certain hard throaty words..accounted the difficultst in all the whole Castilian language. 1863 E. C. Clayton Queens of Song II. 108 In flexibility she was surpassed by few singers..but for purity of tone and volume, her organ..was throaty. 1874 Hullah Speaking Voice 12 Qualities to which we apply, somewhat vaguely, the epithets thick, thin, throaty, mouthy, and the like. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xlvi, A wonderful mixture of the throaty and the nasal. 1906 Times 8 Nov. 11/3 Parts of her voice are very throaty in quality. |
2. Of an animal: Having the skin about the throat too loose and pendulous; having a prominent throat or capacious swallow.
| 1778 Reading Merc. & Oxf. Gaz. 30 Nov., A little black Welch Bullock..with a white back, grizzle head and neck throaty. a 1843 Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1851) IV. 400/2 Some bulls of the middle-horned breed are reproached with being throaty, the skin too profuse and pendulous. 1897 Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 541/2 The Spanish pointer was huge of bone, coarse in head and muzzle, very throaty. |