thursty

thursty

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sti

Adjective

thursty (comparative more thursty, superlative most thursty)

1. Obsolete spelling of thirsty
   • 1548 (in 2006, David A. Copeland, Daniel Schorr, The Idea of a Free Press: The Enlightenment and Its Unruly Legacy, Northwestern University Press (→ISBN), page 53):

     In 1548, during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, a London newsbook proclaimed that there was a “thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know.”

   • 1557, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie (in 1810, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, page 9)

     All soules that be thursty bid threshe out for mawlt:

   • 1887, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, page 68:

     Compare that wi' drinkin when you're thursty — either clear well-water, or sour- milk, or sma' yill, or porter, or speerits half-and-half, and then I wad say that eatin and drinkin's pretty much of a muchness...

   • 2010, Brian Jacques, Marlfox, Random House, →ISBN:

     'We'm horful thursty, marm. Ee sun be 'ot out thurr!'