Definitions for thrushes

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Spelling: [thruhsh]

IPA: /θrʌʃ/

Thrushes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in thrushes (ehhrsstu).

Definitions for thrushes

noun

1. any of numerous, medium-sized songbirds of the family Turdinae, usually dull brown and often speckled below, and including many outstanding singers.
2. any of various superficially similar birds, as the water thrushes.
3. Slang. a female professional singer, especially of popular songs.
4. Pathology. a disease, especially in children, characterized by whitish spots and ulcers on the membranes of the mouth, fauces, etc., caused by a parasitic fungus, Candida albicans.
5. Veterinary Pathology. (in horses) a diseased condition of the frog of the foot.

Origin of thrushes

before 900; Middle English thrusche, Old English thrȳsce; cognate with Old High German drōsca

Examples for thrushes

No amount of hushing has any effect; you might just as well hush a blackbird or a thrush.

Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.

The thrush sang his two syllables on the budding guelder-rose.

However, when you can't get a thrush, eat a blackbird, as the proverb says.

The thrush is right, that is the sweetest music that was ever heard in all the world.

“Oh, it is where it always was, and where it always will be,” said the thrush.

He was talking with her in an English garden and a thrush was singing overhead.

A thrush sat in the hedge, and she was singing her morning song.

And when they looked up, who should they see perched on a branch but the thrush.

Tease a thrush, or even a lark, and you will soon be convinced.