thresh
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English thresshen, threshen, threschen, from Old English þrescan, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną. Compare West Frisian terskje, Dutch dorsen, Low German döschen, German dreschen, Danish tærske.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛʃ
Verb[edit]
thresh (third-person singular simple present threshes, present participle threshing, simple past and past participle threshed)
- (transitive, agriculture) To separate the grain from the straw or husks by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
- (transitive, literary) To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
Quotations[edit]
- 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
- You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act, and how you can’t be bothered to find out because wasting even a fraction of your brainpower on those bright orange clueless dicksplats would make you just as bad as them and you’d feel duty-bound to fling yourself under an industrial threshing machine as penance? You do? Good.
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Translations[edit]
to separate the grain from the straw or husks
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