thost
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English thost, from Old English þost (“dung; ordure”), from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *tews- (“to clear; empty; drain”).
Noun
editthost (uncountable)
- (dialectal or obsolete) dung
- 1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:
- To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]
Anagrams
editIrish
editNoun
editthost
- Lenited form of tost.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editthost (plural thostis)
- fecal matter; dung or feces, especially that of animals
- (rare) something without worth
Descendants
edit- English: thost
References
edit- “thost, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-21.
Scottish Gaelic
editNoun
editthost
- Lenited form of tost.
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