thost

English

Etymology

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”).

Noun

thost (uncountable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) dung
   • 1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:

     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; [...]

Anagrams

• Shott, Toths, shott, tho'ts, thots

Irish

Noun

thost

1. Lenited form of tost.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• þost, þoste, thoste

Etymology

From Old English þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɔst/

Noun

thost (plural thostis)

1. fecal matter; dung or feces, especially that of animals
2. (rare) something without worth

Descendants

• English: thost

References

• “thost, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-21.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

thost

1. Lenited form of tost.