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English
Noun
thrist
- Obsolete form of thirst.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 261:Who ſhall him rew, that ſwimming in the maine, / Will die for thriſt, and water doth refuſe? / Refuſe ſuch fruitleſſe toile, and preſent pleaſures chuſe.
Verb
thrist (third-person singular simple present thrists, present participle thristing, simple past and past participle thristed)
- Obsolete form of thirst.
References
Anagrams
Welsh
Adjective
thrist
- Aspirate mutation of trist (“sad”).
Mutation
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English trist, from Old Norse traust.
Pronunciation
Noun
thrist
- trust
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72