If your voice is hoarse or if you are hoarse, your voice sounds rough and unclear, for example because your throat is sore. `So what do you think?' she said in a hoarse whisper + hoarsely hoarse·ly `Thank you,' Maria said hoarsely. + hoarseness hoarse·ness Hoarseness is very common in the winter season. if you are hoarse, or if your voice is hoarse, you speak in a low rough voice, for example because your throat is sore
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
[ 'hOrs, 'hors ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English hos, hors, probably from Old Norse hArs; akin to Old English hAs hoarse, Old High German heis.