throat
pronunciation
How to pronounce throat in British English:
UK [θrəʊt]
How to pronounce throat in American English:
US [θroʊt]
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- Noun:
- the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
- a passage resembling a throat in shape or function
Word Origin
- throat
- throat: [OE] Throat comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *thrut- or *thrūt-. This also produced Old English thrūtian ‘swell’, and a related base *strut- was the source of the now defunct Middle English strouten ‘bulge, swell’ (not to mention Dutch strot ‘throat’), so it has been speculated that the underlying etymological meaning of throat is ‘swollen part’ – an allusion no doubt to the bulge of the Adam’s apple. Throttle [14] is probably a derivative of throat.=> throttle
- throat (n.)
- Old English þrote (implied in þrotbolla "the Adam's apple, larynx," literally "throat boll"), related to þrutian "to swell," from Proto-Germanic *thrut- (cognates: Old High German drozza, German Drossel, Old Saxon strota, Middle Dutch strote, Dutch strot "throat"), of uncertain origin. Italian strozza "throat," strozzare "to strangle" are Germanic loan-words. College slang for "competitive student" is 1970s, from cutthroat.
Example
- 1. She managed to squeeze the word through her constricted throat .
- 2. It is also implicated in other cancers mouth , throat and breast .
- 3. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster .
- 4. One of the terrorists was seated behind lewin and stabbed him , possibly in the throat .
- 5. The firm 's new boss , rakesh kapoor , will use his knowledge of india to sell even more throat lozenges and detergent .