# thrush
## English

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θɹʌʃ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌʃ

### Etymology 1

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”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

#### Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)
* Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.
* (US, colloquial) A female singer.

##### Derived terms

* ant thrush (Neocossyphus spp.)
* babbling thrush
* Bicknell's thrush
* black-throated thrush
* blue rock thrush
* brown thrush (Toxostoma rufum)
* clay-colored thrush
* common rock thrush
* dusky thrush
* eyebrowed thrush
* great thrush (Turdus fuscater)
* ground thrush (Pittidae spp.)
* hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus).
* jay thrush (Leiothrichidae spp.)
* Kurrichane thrush (Turdus libonyanus)
* laughingthrush (Leiothrichidae(
* migratory thrush (Turdus migratorius)
* missel thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
* mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
* mistletoe thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
* mocking thrush (Harporhynchus rufus)
* mountain thrush (Turdus plebejus)
* native thrush (Pachycephala olivacea)
* Naumann's thrush (Turdus naumanni)
* nightingale-thrush
* olive-backed thrush (Hylocichla ustulata)
* pale thrush (Turdus pallidus)
* quail-thrush
* red-throated thrush
* reed thrush
* ring thrush (Turdus torquatus)
* rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
* rufous-tailed rock thrush
* running thrush
* russet-backed thrush
* scaly thrush
* screech thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
* shrikethrush
* Siberian thrush
* song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
* squawking thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
* Swainson's thrush
* tawny thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
* thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)
* thrush-tanager
* tit thrush (Suthora spp. etc.)
* true thrush (Turdus spp.)
* varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius)
* water thrush, waterthrush (Parkesia spp.)
* whistling thrush (Myophonus spp.)
* White's thrush (Zoothera aurea)
* willow thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
* Wilson's thrush (Catharus fuscescens)
* wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
* wrenthrush (Zeledonia coronata)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Uncertain, though likely not related to the "bird" sense of Etymology 1; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish torsk, Norwegian trøske. Perhaps also related to Old French fourchette (“frog of a horse's hoof”).

#### Noun

thrush (plural thrushes)
* A fungal infection caused by species of genus Candida, affecting the mouth or vagina; candidiasis.
** 1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “AIDS Redefined In 1992?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 6:Cervical cancer and recurrent vaginal thrush are both strongly linked to the presence of HIV in women.

##### Synonyms

* candidiasis

##### Derived terms

* oral thrush

##### Translations

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#### References

* ↑ “thrush”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### See also

* candida
* turdiform

### References

* “*thrush”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.