Definitions for thrush

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Spelling: [thruhsh]

IPA: /θrʌʃ/

Thrush is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in thrush (hhrstu).

Definitions for thrush

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 thrush

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

Examples for thrush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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