Word.ws English Dictionary

thrushy

thrushy adjective: having the disease thrush.

Adjective

thrushy

  1. Having the disease thrush.
    • Thrushy children quite frequently communicate this disorder to the nursing mother's nipples.1881, William A. Edmonds, A Treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Infants and Children (page 124)

Origin of thrushy

From thrush + -y.

Questions about thrushy

What does thrushy mean?
Thrushy means having the disease thrush.
What part of speech is thrushy?
Thrushy is an adjective.

Words near thrushy in the dictionary

  1. thrushers
  2. thrushes
  3. thrushlike
  4. thrushling
  5. thrushlings
  6. thrushy
  7. thrussies
  8. thrussy
  9. thrust
  10. thrust bucket
  11. thrust buckets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thrushy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thrushy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thrushy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.