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noun ˈθraʃəˈθræʃər 1A person or thing that thrashes. Example sentencesExamples - While his guitar used to sound like an impending revolution, his talents now seem comparable to any average American rock string thrasher.
- Here was a band that seemingly had that bit of something that at the same time appealed to indie kids, seasoned metallers, thrashers and fledgling ravers.
- Once again happy, healthy and whole, the Swedish thrashers with a meaningful message and a kooky name are ready to embark on a journey of music and merriment.
2 archaic spelling of thresher (sense 1)
Rhymes Asher, clasher, flasher, lasher, masher, Natasha, pasha, rasher, Sasha, slasher, smasher noun ˈθraʃəˈθræʃər An American songbird of the mockingbird family, with mainly brown or grey plumage, a long tail, and a downcurved bill. Family Mimidae: five genera, in particular Toxostoma, and several species Example sentencesExamples - Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
- Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
- The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
- Edge it with shrubs to provide leaf litter where brown thrashers, towhees, and white-throated and fox sparrows can scratch for insects.
- Most versatile of all is the brown thrasher, a singer's singer, which knows as many as 2,000 songs.
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from English dialect thrusher, thresher 'thrush'. nounˈTHraSHərˈθræʃər 1A person or thing that thrashes. Example sentencesExamples - While his guitar used to sound like an impending revolution, his talents now seem comparable to any average American rock string thrasher.
- Once again happy, healthy and whole, the Swedish thrashers with a meaningful message and a kooky name are ready to embark on a journey of music and merriment.
- Here was a band that seemingly had that bit of something that at the same time appealed to indie kids, seasoned metallers, thrashers and fledgling ravers.
2 archaic spelling of thresher (sense 1)
nounˈTHraSHərˈθræʃər An American songbird of the mockingbird family, with mainly brown or gray plumage, a long tail, and a down-curved bill. Family Mimidae: five genera, in particular Toxostoma, and several species Example sentencesExamples - The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
- Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
- Edge it with shrubs to provide leaf litter where brown thrashers, towhees, and white-throated and fox sparrows can scratch for insects.
- Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
- Most versatile of all is the brown thrasher, a singer's singer, which knows as many as 2,000 songs.
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from English dialect thrusher, thresher ‘thrush’. |