Meaning

noun the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone

noun an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep

noun a passage resembling a throat in shape or function

originFrom 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…

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