thursty

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of thirsty.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“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⟳.””

“All soules that be thursty bid threshe out for mawlt:”

“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...”

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

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