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thost

thost noun: dung.

Noun

thost (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) dung
    • To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

Origin of thost

From Middle English thost, from Old English þost (“dung; ordure”), from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *tews- (“to clear; empty; drain”).

Words that rhyme with thost

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Questions about thost

What does thost mean?
Thost means dung.
What part of speech is thost?
Thost is a noun.

Words near thost in the dictionary

  1. those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
  2. those who will not when they may, when they will they shall have nay
  3. those're
  4. those've
  5. thoseness
  6. thost
  7. thot
  8. Thota
  9. Thotas
  10. Thoth
  11. thother

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