Definitions
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- phrase
thou art (i.e.you are in archaic informal singular)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or his comic masterpiece, Mac Flecknoe, satirising an obscure Restoration rival: "A tun of man, in thy large bulk is writ,/but sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit" (kilderkin: an old English unit of volume equal to two firkins).
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Methinks that thou'rt the finest musician o 'our time.
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Now as thou'rt better learned than me,Dear Cos', I leave it all to thee,To judge about this puzzling man,And ponder wisely – for you can.
Poem of the week: The Epistle of Deborah Dough by Mary Leapor
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As as Scots visitor wrote in the 15th century, "London, thou'rt the flower of cities all!"
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Methinks, thou'rt frighted: Tell, what dost thou fear?
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Not much: as anxious thoughts 'gan rise, thou'rt come.
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Not much: as anxious thoughts 'gan rise, thou'rt come.
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Methinks, thou'rt frighted: Tell, what dost thou fear?
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When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?
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When comes a likely wooer? who protests thou'rt fair?
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