Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A contagious disease caused by a fungus, Candida albicans, that occurs most often in infants and children, characterized by small whitish eruptions on the mouth, throat, and tongue, and usually accompanied by fever, colic, and diarrhea.
  • noun An infection of the frog of a horse's foot, characterized by a foul-smelling discharge and often resulting from unhygienic stall conditions.
  • noun Any of numerous migratory songbirds of the widely distributed family Turdidae, usually having brownish upper plumage and a spotted breast and noted for a clear melodious song.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A diseased condition of the frog of the horse's foot, characterized by a fetid discharge: it is generally ascribed to the irritation of wet and filth.
  • noun Parasitic stomatitis, caused by the thrush-fungus. Also called aphthæ, sprew, sprue.
  • noun A bird of the family Turdidæ, and especially of the genus Turdus in a broad sense; specifically, the throstle, song-thrush, or mavis of Europe, Turdus musicus.
  • noun Some bird not of the thrush family, mistaken for a thrush or compared to a thrush: with a qualifying epithet.
  • noun See Scisura.
  • noun See thurse and hobthrush.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.
  • noun See Ant thrush, Breve, and Pitta.
  • noun any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- called also babbler.
  • noun any species of bulbul.
  • noun See under Shrike.
  • noun the missel thrush; -- said to be so called from its marbled breast.
  • noun See Nightingale, 2.
  • noun any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds of the genus Cochoa. They are beautifully colored birds allied to the tits, but resembling thrushes in size and habits.
  • noun An American warbler (Seiurus Noveboracensis).
  • noun (Med.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthæ. See aphthæ.
  • noun (Far.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and robin have.
  • noun US, colloquial A female singer.
  • noun A fungal infection caused by Candida, now especially of the vagina; candidiasis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults
  • noun songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
  • noun a woman who sings popular songs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably of Scandinavian origin.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English thrushe, from Old English thrysce.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From a combination of Old English þrȳsce (from Proto-Germanic *þrūskjōn) and Old English *þrēasce (attested in Anglian þrǣsce; from Proto-Germanic *þrauskōn).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare Swedish torsk, Danish trøske.

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Examples

  • Also I think I have thrush - well at least I hope its just thrush…

    anasthesia Diary Entry anasthesia 2004

  • I found some relief with liberal applications of bag balm, as well as by using these things called Second Skin bandages (which are moist bandages used for burns) between feedings – but use those with care because if you leave them on too long you can get thrush from the damp environment.

    The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Its recoil might, with a following wind, dislodge a thrush from a thistle-but as I saw when I hunted in Sweden, ungulates of all sizes fell down smartly when shot with the 6.5, just as fast as they would if smacked with something that would take the turret off an M-1 tank.

    How Swede It Is 2007

  • Your tongue can also develop cysts, ulcers, herpes infections, and yeast infections which are called thrush; milk of magnesia or nystatin can chase the yeast right out of your mouth.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • The word thrush sounded so smooth and poetic compared to the raging fire and irritation that was in my throat.

    2008 September 2008

  • The word thrush sounded so smooth and poetic compared to the raging fire and irritation that was in my throat.

    An Interview With John Klima 2008

  • Your tongue can also develop cysts, ulcers, herpes infections, and yeast infections which are called thrush; milk of magnesia or nystatin can chase the yeast right out of your mouth.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • This is called thrush and is treated orally with nystatin drops.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • There is the song of the hermit thrush from the deep wood, the sight of a hawk or an eagle soaring silent above it all.

    Addresses by Luella Creighton, Pierre Berton, and Dr. Wilder Penfield 1954

  • The old man was so eager for news that it was difficult to fix him to the object of our inquiries; and then he expatiated on the attractions of the neighbourhood, and the “chasse magnifique de grèves,” as he called thrush-shooting, in the country round, if we came to Porto-Torres in the month of December.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

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  • You are in two minds

    Tossing a coin to decide whether you should tell your folks

    About a dose of thrush you got when licking railings

    But you read in a book

    That you got free in Boots

    There are lotions, there are potions

    You can take to hide your shame from all those prying eyes.

    (Lazy line painter Jane, by Belle and Sebastian)

    September 5, 2008

  • A woman who sings popular songs, weirdnet? Aren't you forgetting to mention that she is your uncle's sworn enemy?

    January 12, 2009

  • let's be candid(a)

    thrush is no great rush

    March 1, 2009

  • Strange that Wierdnet cites the disease before the songbird.

    March 1, 2009

  • a person who sings!

    March 1, 2009

  • See also sturdy.

    June 1, 2018