thou

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/ðaʊ/

verb 2noun 2adv 1conj 1pron 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, black, deep, done, evil, false, new, rich

Thou black heart hath caused nothing but suffering to all who knew thee.

VERB + THOU

call, remove, save, say

They say thou art the wisest person in all the kingdom.

THOU + NOUN

art, cleft, comest, father, forgettest, hast, knowest, poverty

Thou art a faithful friend who has stood by me through all my troubles.

PREP.

from, in, in, off, through, with

I learned so much from thou that I still remember your lessons today.

ADV.

easily, wherefore

Wherefore thou didst abandon thy responsibilities remains a mystery to us all.

Definitions

verb

To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.

Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children

Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! / I am come of good kin, I tell thee! / My mother was a lady of the stews' blood born, / And (knight of the halter) my father ware an horn; / Therefore I take it in full great scorn, / That thou shouldest thus check me.

To use the word thou.

The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.

You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.

noun

A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).

We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.

But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."

noun

A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

Whoa there, big spender — that'll cost you a few thou. Are you sure you can afford it?

Butch [Cassidy] gave him 3 thous in cash 1 thous for the lawyer another thous if the lawyer wins & 1 thous for Tom O'Day.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children

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[T]aunt him with the licenſe of Inke: if thou thou'ſt him some thrice, it ſhall not be amiſſe, and as many Lyes, as will lye in thy ſheete of paper, although the ſheete were bigge enough for the bedde

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We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.

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But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."

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All these methods remove metal and can, in fact, remove a few thou from the surface. For accurately machined parts, therefore, none of these methods are suitable but wet blasting with a fine alumina w

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, thou is marked as slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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