thruv
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[edit]Verb
[edit]thruv
- (colloquial, regional, nonstandard) past participle of thrive
- Synonym: throve
- 1861, James Roderick O'Flanagan, Gentle Blood, or the Secret Marriage, page 99:
- "I'm done with marrying, it thruv so bad with me," she replied.
- 1862, Robert Curtis, Curiosities of Detection, page 31:
- […] and that blessed night my poor daughter took the child to nurse, and, sure, a good thing it was for her in every way, and good care she took of it, and well it thruv.