Meanings
- dialectalobsoleteuncountabledung
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
- Proto-Indo-European*tews-“to clear; empty; drain”
- Proto-Germanic*þustaz“manure”
- Proto-West Germanic*þost
- Old Englishþost“dung; ordure”
- Middle Englishthost
- Englishthost
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”).
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thost. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thost
“thost.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thost. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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