thrush
pronunciation
How to pronounce thrush in British English:
UK [θrʌʃ]
How to pronounce thrush in American English:
US [θrʌʃ]
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- Noun:
- candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults
- a woman who sings popular songs
- songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
Word Origin
- thrush
- thrush: Thrush the bird [OE] and thrush the disease [17] are presumably different words, although the origins of the latter are obscure. The bird-name goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thruskjōn, and has relatives in Latin turdus ‘thrush’ (source of English sturdy), German drossel ‘thrush’, and the now archaic English throstle ‘thrush’. The first record we have of thrush the disease is in Samuel Pepys’s diary, for 17 June 1665: ‘He hath a fever, a thrush, and a hickup’. It may have been of Scandinavian origin (Danish has troske for a similar disease).
- thrush (n.1)
- type of songbird, Old English þræsce, variant of þrysce, from Proto-Germanic *thruskjon (cognates: Old Norse þröstr, Norwegian trost, Old High German drosca), from PIE *trozdo- (cognates: Latin turdus, Lithuainian strazdas "thrush," Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy "starling," Old Church Slavonic drozgu, Russian drozdu).
- thrush (n.2)
- throat disease, 1660s, probably from a Scandinavian source (such as Norwegian, Danish trøske, Swedish torsk), but its roots and original meaning are unclear.
Example
- 1. Thrush is growing at the age of two weeks .
- 2. The moment thrush strikes , many women reach for a tub of yoghurt to treat the fierce , burning pain .
- 3. Thrush aircraft , a firm based in albany , georgia , is even more expansive .
- 4. People with hiv or aids may develop oral thrush , oral warts , fever blisters , canker sores , and hairy leukoplakia , which are white or gray patches on the tongue or the inside of the cheek .
- 5. Despite common wisdom , thrush isn 't the most common vaginal infection - twice as many women get bacterial vaginosis , an infection caused by overgrowth of bacteria .