Other forms: thrushes
A thrush is a speckle-chested songbird that smashes snails on stones. A song thrush, the thrush sang, a thrush anvil.
It picks a favourite stone and uses it again and again to break shells, and the broken pieces pile up around it — the stone is called the anvil. The word also names a fungal infection, which is a different and unrelated use entirely.
1nounthrushA speckle-chested songbird that smashes snails on stones.
“A thrush sang from the top of the apple tree in the early morning.”
thrush is a bird.
Old English thrysce names the bird, from a Germanic root shared with throstle.
Proto-Germanic
*þruskijǭ
Old English
þrysċe
Middle English
thrusche
English, today
thrush
From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic þrauskǭ and/or þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European trosdos (“thrush”). Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), mga truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), cu дрозгъ, Russian дрозд.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA