drossel

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English

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Etymology

Compare drazel.

Pronunciation

Noun

drossel (plural drossels)

  1. (obsolete) A slut; a hussy.
    • 1602, William Warner, Albion's England:
      Now dwels each Drossell in her Glasse.

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German drossel, from Old Saxon thrōsla, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā (thrush).

Noun

drossel c (singular definite drosselen or droslen, plural indefinite drosler)

  1. thrush

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German

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Verb

drossel

  1. inflection of drosseln:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. singular imperative