Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thost

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thost
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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; [...]"

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: thost, þost, *þost, *þustaz, *tews-

Usage

Rhymes With

cost prime cost crossed frost jack frost tossed embossed glossed defrost wast bossed accost

Questions

What does thost mean?: dung
Where does thost come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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