thursty

comparative more thursty · superlative most thursty

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of thirsty.

   All soules that be thursty bid threshe out for mawlt:

   1557, Thomas Tusser, “A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, published 1810, page 9

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   In 1548, during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, a London newsbook proclaimed that there was a “thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know.”

   1548 (in 2006, David A. Copeland, Daniel Schorr, The Idea of a Free Press: The Enlightenment and Its Unruly Legacy, Northwestern University Press, page 53)

   Compare that wi' drinkin when you're thursty — either clear well-water, or sour- milk, or sma' yill, or porter, or speerits half-and-half, and then I wad say that eatin and drinkin's pretty much of a muchness...

   1887, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianae, page 68

   'We'm horful thursty, marm. Ee sun be 'ot out thurr!'

   2010, Brian Jacques, Marlfox, Random House, →ISBN