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Added 9 October 2026

throat

/ˈθɹəʊt/ noun

In Latin: guttur, gula Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about throat at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The front part of the neck.
The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
The gullet or windpipe.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
A narrow opening in a vessel.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

verb

To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
To take into the throat.
To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Origin

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

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