thou
Forms
- present (v1)
- thou
- past (v2)
- thoued
- past participle (v3)
- thoued
- present participle
- thouing
- 3rd person singular
- thous
- Plural
- thous
Definitions
1.To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
- Unfortunate we the duennas! though we descended in a direct male-line from Hector of Troy, our mistresses will never forbear "thouing" us, were they to be made queens for it.
2.To use the word thou.
- The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English, yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.
1.A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
- But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."
2.A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).(slang)
- Butch [Cassidy] gave him 3 thous in cash 1 thous for the lawyer another thous if the lawyer wins & 1 thous for Tom O'Day.
1.Misspelling of though.
1.Misspelling of though.
1.Honorific alternative letter-case form of thou, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4919
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”). cognates and usage evolution