thou
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
Verb 2 meanings
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
“Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children”
To use the word thou.
Noun 1 meaning
A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
“We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.”
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”).
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THOU at a glance
THOU has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + O 1 + U 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,463 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with thou
All rhymes- CHOU9
- CACHOU13
- TAHOU8
- KUMARAHOU18
- ORIHOU9
- TAUHOU9
- WAREHOU13
One letter away
- THRU7
- CHOU9
- THON7
- TROU4
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