hauch

“Sie ist wunderschoen umd sexy,aber auf vielen Fotos umweht sie ein hauch von Traurigkeit.”

The Gunslinger

“Thirty-five percent of the innumerable participants in the survey chose some form of this onomatopoeic verb, from haar and haw to harf and hauch.”

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“The hauch form, three readers noted, is from the German hauchen, “to exhale.””

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“Sandy gae a bit hauch, an 'swallowed a spittal, an' stappin 'forrit a bittie, began -- "Mester Chairman ----" He gae Pottie a glower that nearhand knokit him aff the box he was sittin' on.”

My Man Sandy