throatiness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English throaty Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English throatiness From throaty + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable, with reference to a voice) The property of being throaty; roughness, coarseness.
Amazement took the throatiness out of his voice.
1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 130:Mademoiselle de Roissi’s voice […] is quite free from that throatiness of sound, an invariable characteristic of French voices, which, had we no evidence to the contrary, would lead us to suppose, that Mdlle. de Roissi had studied vocalization in Italy […]
1848 November 4, “Dramatic Intelligence”, in The Musical World, volume 23, number 45, page 716:His eyes began to glow and his voice took on the throatiness he used in sermons.
1952, John Steinbeck, chapter 43, in East of Eden, New York: Viking, published 1986, page 633:
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(uncountable, with reference to a sheep or dog) The property of having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck.
We have before noticed, that a pendulous skin under the throat, what we term throatiness, is much esteemed, because it is supposed to denote a tendency both to wool and to a heavy fleece.
1803, John Southey Somerville, Facts and Observations Relative to Sheep, Wool, Ploughs, and Oxen, London: William Miller, page 24:A variety was produced superior to the Merino in form, carrying less wool, but this more than compensated by its fineness. The excessive throatiness of the Paulars disappeared or was greatly diminished.
1840, Willis Gaylord, Luther Tucker, chapter 9, in American Husbandry, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 190:The neck [of the foxhound] must be long and clean, without the slightest throatiness.
1905, Frank Townend Barton, chapter 8, in Sporting Dogs, London: R.A. Everett, page 114:1859, “Stonehenge” (John Henry Walsh), The Dog in Health and Disease, London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, Chapter 3, p. 49, Both, however, were large, bony hounds, with long falling ears, but the southern hounds had absolute dewlaps, or at all events such excessive throatiness as to make them rejected in the present day on that account alone.