Noun: thrush
| Singular | thrush |
| Plural | thrushes |
Sample Sentences
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I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:]
Nouns inflected like thrush
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”).
2. Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd). See: Middle English Nouns '
thrusche', Old English Nouns '
þrysċe', Old English Nouns '
þræsċe', German Nouns '
Drossel', Old Norse Nouns '
þrǫstr', Latin Nouns '
turdus', Russian Nouns '
дрозд'.
Verbs referencing "thrush"
Irish Nouns
druid, Icelandic Nouns
þröstur, Bulgarian Nouns
дрозд, Old Norse Nouns
þrǫstr.