a. [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.
