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▪ I. thrash, thresh, v.|θræʃ|, |θrɛʃ|
Forms: see below.
[OE. þerscan (pa. tense þærsc, þurscon, pa. pple. þorscen), rarely and late þrescan, þryscan; a Common Teutonic verb, = OLG. *þerscan (MLG., MDu., Flem. derschen; also MDu., Du., LG. dorschen, LG. drosken, EFris. dörsken); OHG. dreskan (MHG., Ger. dreschen); ON. þreskja, weak vb. (Norw. treskja, Da. tærske, Sw. tröska); Goth. þriskan (*þrask, *þruskans):—OTeut. *þresk- :—Indo-Eur. *tresk-, exemplified also in Lith. traszketi to rattle, make a noise, Russ. treskati (refl.) to burst, crash, crackle: cf. OSlav. tresk{pp} n. a crash. The metathesis þersk- for þresk- is found in OE., LG., Du., and Da. The meaning in OTeut. was prob. ‘to tramp or stamp heavily with the feet’, including both the action and the noise, as shown by the senses in which the word was taken into Romanic: Prov. tresc-ar, dresc-ar, It. tresc-are, OF. trescher to dance, Sp., Pg. trisc-ar to make a noise with the feet (see Diez s.v. trescare). The word came to be applied esp. to the act of treading out corn by the feet of men or oxen, and thus to the action of threshing by this or any later method. This is the only sense known in Gothic, OHG., and ONorse; but within historical times the chief mode of threshing was beating with the flail, whence the word came to be applied fig. to knocking, beating, or striking generally, and esp. of a person in battle or in punishment. In English this appears already in the OE. period; in German it is later (Grimm). The historical form in Eng. is thresh; a dialectal variant thrash, faintly represented in early times, came into literary use near the end of the 16th c., and became established in the 17th c., esp. in the sense ‘to beat, flog, or belabour’, for which it is now the ordinary form, while thresh is still largely retained in reference to corn. By this means, to thresh (corn) and to thrash (an offender or an opponent) have become to a considerable extent differentiated, so as almost to be felt as distinct words, esp. since the use of the flail has become so much superseded by mechanical means. Another form throsh, with the vowel of the pa. pple. as in Du. and LG., was frequent in late ME., but is now only dialectal.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
1. Present stem.
(α) 1 þersc(e)an, þirsc-, ðærsc-, ðerhs-, ðearc-, ðearsc-, þearcs-, þrex-, ðryscan; 3 þreoschen, 3–4 þressh-, 4 threisch-, threissch-, 4–5 þresch-, þressch-e(n, 4–6 thresshe, thresche, -yn, threshe, thresse, -yn, 5 thraissh, 6–7 threash, 6– thresh (dial. 6 tress, drayse, draysche, 8–9 draish, dresh).
a800Cynewulf Elene 358 (Gr.) Ða wereᵹan neat, þe man..drifeð and þirsceð. a850Ðeh ðu þercce [? þersce] [see B. 1]. c897Ðerscað ðone weall [see B. 4]. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark v. 5 Cliopende & ðærscende hine to stanum. Ibid. xiv. 65 Ongunnun..mið fystum vel dyntum hine ᵹeslaa vel ᵹeðearsca [c 975 Rushw. ðarsca]. c1000To þerscenne. a1100Ðerhsan [see B. 1 b]. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses 212/1 Territat, þearcs. a1100Aldhelm Gloss. i. 3433 ibid. 91/2 Triturandos, to þrexen[n]e. a1225Ancr. R. 306 Þet seoruwe þreosche him wiðinne þe heorte. 1377,c1386Thresche, threshe, threischinge, thresshe, þressche [see B. 1 b]. 14..Tretyce in W. of Henley's Husb. (1890) 50 Let yor thresers be sworne to thresse it clene. c1440Promp. Parv. 492/2 Threschyn, trituro, flagello. 1530Palsgr. 755/2, I thresshe corne in a barne. 15..Thressyn [see B. 1 b]. 1552Huloet, Threshe, flagello,..trituro. 1570Levins Manip. 91/32 To Thresh, triturare. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. (S.T.S.) I. 95 Thay thresche na stuf. 1693,1764, etc. Thresh [see B. 1].
(β) (1 ðarscan), 5 thrassh, 6– thrash (8–9 dial. drash).
c975Ðarsca [see α, quot. c 9502]. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 264 To..thrash, to thetch, to mowe. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 390 The men bring it [corn] into the barn, but the women thrash and sell it. 1746Exmoor Scolding 94 Chell baste tha, chell stram tha, chell drash tha. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Royal Visit Exeter ii. xiv, He did zo drash about his brain, That was not over stor'd.
(γ) 5 throsch(e, 5–6 throsh(e, throsshe, throszshe, (8–9 dial. drosh).
14..Chaucer's Prol. 536 (MS. Cambr. G g 4, 27) He wolde throsche. 1486[implied in Throsheris: see thrasher1 1]. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xiv. aa viij b/1 They ledyth them [oxen] abowte vpon corne to breke the strawe in throsshyng and tredynge the flour. 1526Tindale 1 Cor. ix. 10 He which throssheth in hope shulde be part taker of his hope. 1535Coverdale Hab. iii. 12 Thou trodest downe the londe..and didest throsshe the Heithen.
2. Past tense.
(α) 1 ðærsc, pl. ðurscon, -un (þurcson, þurhsun), 2 pl. þurscen, 5 pl. throsshen; 8–9 Sc. thruish, threush |-ø-|.
a900O.E. Martyrol. 7 Mar. 36 He..corn þærsc ond þæt windwode. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xii. 5 Sume ðurscun oðero æc ofsloᵹon. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxii. 64 Þa..ofer-wruᵹon hys ansyne & þurhsun [v.r. þurcson, c 1160 Hatton G. þurscen] his nebb. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lxxiv. (1869) 43 Manye..throsshen it and fanned it. 1815Threush [B. 3 b]. Mod. Sc. He thruish aa' day i' the barn.
(β) (weak conj.) 4–5 thresched, 6 threashed, (throszshed), 6– threshed, thrashed.
c1400Thresched [see B. 4 b]. 1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xxii. [xxi.] 20 Arnan throszshed wheate. 1560Bible (Genev.) Judg. vi. 11 Gideon threashed [1611 threshed] wheat. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 639/1 Sundrie..came to theyr Barnes, threshed vp theyr grayne. 1633Thresht [see B. 2].
3. Past participle.
(α) 1 *þorscen, 2 iþor(s)chen; 3 i-ðrosschen, (Orm.) þrosshenn, 4 ithrosshen, i-þrosschen, y-þorsse, throsshe, 5 throsshen, (trosshyn), 6 throshen, 9 Sc. thruishen |-ø-|.
c1175Iþor[s]chen [see B. 2]. c1200Ormin 1530 Þa winndwesst tu þin þrosshenn corn. a1225Iðrosschen [see B. 5]. 1340Y-þorsse [see B. 1, 4]. 13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 83/26 Hit is brouht hom til a Berne, Hard I-þrosschen in an hurne. 1584Shuttleworth's Acc. (Chetham Soc.) i. 21 When the same [corn] was throshen xiijd. Mod. Sc. When the last stack was thruishen.
(β) 5–6 thresshen, (5 (i)thresshe, ythrysshe), 6 threshoone, 7 Sc. threaschin, 8 Sc. threshen.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 5412 Tyl the thressherys..Hadde thys greyn ythrysshe & bete. c1450Godstow Reg. 649 The corn that is wonyd to be gyf I-thresshe. c1450Oseney Reg. 144, I and myne heyres schall make it to Be thresshe. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §13 Whan it is thresshen, there is moche lyght corne. 1599Nottingham Rec. IV. 251 All the corne..threshoone and vnthreshoone. 1629Orkney Witch Trial in County Folk-Lore (1903) III. 77 Edward Rendall..said thair was nane [corn] threa[s]chin. 1720T. Boston Fourfold St. (1797) 135 The corn of my floor threshen in the floor of wrath.
(γ) (weak conj.) 4 threschid, threischid, 6 (tressyd), thresht(e, 6– threshed, thrashed (7 thrasht).
1382Threschid [see B. 2]. 1538in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden) 176 Sum is threshte,..and mych is yit to threshe. 1544in I. S. Leadam Sel. Cases Crt. Requests (1898) 76 The said Baylyf causyd the same pease to be tressyd. a1625Thrasht [see B. 5 β].
B. Signification.
I. To thresh (thrash) corn, etc. and directly derived senses.
1. To separate by any mechanical means, e.g. rubbing, shaking, trampling, stamping, beating, or intermittent pressure, the grains of any cereal from the husks and straw; esp. by beating with a flail; now (from the latter part of the eighteenth century) also by the action of revolving mechanism in a mill or machine. Also, to shake out or separate in the same way the seed of any plant.
The verb was in early times applied to the trampling and stamping of oxen, or the dragging of heavy rugged things, over the corn laid on a smooth surface or ‘floor’.
a. trans.
αa850Kentish Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 83/35–7 Ðeh ðu þercce [for þersce] swa berecorn ðerccedum [for ðerscendum]. c1200Ormin 1500 Þa þresshesst tu þin corn wiþþ fleȝȝl. 1340Ayenb. 139 Of þe hyeape of huete y-þorsse, þe cornes byeþ beneþ e and þet chef above. c1450Lydg. Secrees 1436 Afftir hervest..men thresshe shevys. 1530,1596[see A. 1 α]. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 163 Cutting off all the Seed stems, and when they are dried, threshing out the Seed. 1764Museum Rust. II. lxxvi. 260 How he lets his corn to thresh by the great. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 25 The modern system of threshing grain in Spain is extremely ancient, classical, and Oriental. 1880W. Newton Serm. Boys & Girls (1881) 219 He had a number of men engaged in threshing wheat.
β1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 123 First thrash the Corne, then after burne the straw. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1008 Husbandmen are affraid to thrash their wheat upon a dry and sandy floore, because of ants. 1662[see A. 1 β]. 1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 337 The [turnip] seed may then be..stacked and thrashed when wanted. 1877Knight Dict. Mech. 2555/2 Doura, sorghum, or flax was thrashed by drawing across a comb-like instrument.
b. absol. or intr.
αc1000ælfric's Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 147/14 Area, breda þiling, uel flor on to þerscenne. a1100Gerefa in Anglia (1886) IX. 261 Mæniᵹe inweorc wyrcean, ðerhsan, wudu cleofan. a1300Cursor M. 4744 (Cott.) Ioseph þat was ful o pite Did thresche [v. rr. þresshe, threche] son in þat contre. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 553 Some tyme I sowe and some tyme I thresche. 1382Wyclif Micah iv. 13 Ryse thou, and threshe, douȝter of Syon. ― 1 Cor. ix. 9 Thou schalt not bynde the mouth of the oxe threischinge [1388 that threischith]. c1386Chaucer Prol. 536 He wolde thresshe [v. rr. throsche, þressche] and ther to dyke and delue. 15..Ragman Roll 53 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 72 Whoo so lyst may thressyn in your berne. 1758Johnson Idler No. 70 ⁋10 He, whose task is to reap and thresh.
β1591[see A. 1 β]. 1755Johnson, To thrash, v.n.
c. intr. for pass. Of corn: To bear threshing; to be threshed.
1760R. Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 72 The weeds..will..cause it [rye] not to thrash well. Ibid. 81.
2. fig.; in earlier use sometimes with reference to ancient modes of threshing. to thresh (thrash) straw, to work at what is unproductive or unprofitable; also to thresh over old straw.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 In þe deie of liureisun hwense god almihtin wule windwin þet er wes iþor[s]chen. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxv. 10 Threschid shal ben Moab vnder hym, as ben to-treden strawes in a wayn. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. xxiv, She..Drove farre their flying troops, and thresht with iron flail. 1777Garrick Prol. Sheridan's Sch. Scand. 11 All night at cards when threshing Strong tea and scandal. 1857Pusey Real Presence i. (1869) 144 Bruick said,..‘as to the King himself [Hen. VIII] it was to thresh an empty ear’. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. iv. 73 Why plague thyself with threshing straw forever? a1876Binorie O an Binorie iii. in Child Ballads i. (1882) 133/1 O sister, O sister, will ye go to the dams, To hear the blackbird thrashin oer his songs?
b. to thresh (thrash) out (a subject, etc.), to discuss (a matter) exhaustively, to argue thoroughly; to get at the truth of (a question) by discussion or argument.
1882C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 186 There is hardly a question..that is not now completely thrashed out in the Press long before it reaches Parliament. 1884Law Times 15 Mar. 353/1 Every case thoroughly thrashed out. 1885Sir C. S. C. Bowen in Law Rep. 29 Ch. Div. 810 That point had been threshed out before Mr. Justice Pearson. 1893Spectator 18 Mar. 349 The matter should have been thoroughly threshed out.
3. transf.
a. To beat or strike as with a flail: see quots. and cf. 5.
α1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 180 At Shroftide to shrouing, go thresh the fat hen. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) R ij, Condemn'd to thresh the Sea, that is to the Gallies. 1867F. Francis Angling v. (1880) 153 The angler goes on threshing the water.
β1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 171 Swarms of Gnats, Mus-ke-toes, and such like.., stung and pesterd us..; they biting us, we thrashing them like mad folks. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. ii. 73 Myself will..thrash the Chesnuts in the Neighb'ring Grove. 1823F. Cooper Pioneers i, The black..began thrashing his arms together, in order to restore the circulation.
b. intr. To deliver or inflict blows as with a flail; to strike or beat on or at. (With quot. 1693 cf. beat v.1 26 b.)
1693Dryden Juvenal's Sat. x. 194, I rather wou'd be Mævius, thrash for Rhimes Like his,..Than that Philippique..should be mine. 1815G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 33 He scourg'd the water wi' his tail, An' threush on John as wi' a flail. 1905F. Young Sands Pleas. iii. ii, Richard..walked out of the graveyard, threshing at the nettles with his stick.
†4.
a. trans. To beat, batter, strike, knock. Also fig. Obs. exc. as in 3.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxi. 160 Send ðærto ᵹefylceo, & ðerscað ðone weall mid rammum. a950Rituale Eccl. Dunelm. (Surtees) 6 Svæ ic fehto no svoelce lyft ðerscende [non quasi æram (Vulg. aerem) verberans]. a1000Sal. & Sat. (Kemble) 148 Se ðunor hit ðrysceð mid ðære fyrenan æcxe. 1340Ayenb. 266 Vram þ0 lyȝte byeþ y-þorsse mine eȝen. a1400–50Alexander 1326 He laschis out a lange swerde..Threschis doun in a thrawe many threuyn dukis.
†b. intr. To strike, inflict blows on. Obs.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2300 Wy þresch on, þou þro mon, þou þretez to longe. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 16912 Echon on other dong & thresched.
II. To beat a person, an army, etc. Now commonly thrash.
5. a. trans. To beat by way of punishment; to chastise by or as by beating; to flog, orig. with a stick, cudgel, whip, etc.; in mod. use also to pommel with the fists. Also transf. and fig.
αa950Rituale Eccl. Dunelm. (Surtees) 43 Ðv ðe rehtlice ðv ðersces synfvllo [qui juste verberas peccatores]. a1225Ancr. R. 186 Hendi children þet cusseð þe ȝerden þet he haueð ou mid iðrosschen. a1400Octouian 764 With a staf Y wol the thressche. 1647Trapp Comm. Epistles 366 Gideon by threshing the men of Succoth, taught them [etc.]. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xxi. xvii, Learning to box, too—i.e. feeing a great raw-boned fellow to thresh you as long as he can stand over you.
βa1625Fletcher Nice Valour iii. iii, Oh gentlemen y'are welcom: I have been thrasht i' faith... Never was Shrove-tuesday Bird So cudgel'd gentlemen. 1733Fielding Mock Doctor iv, Take a good cudgel, and thrash him with it. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 168 A Wife, an Ass, a Walnut-tree ('tis thought) Except they're thrash'd, are never good for ought. 1833Marryat P. Simple x, O'Brien..was very kind to me in general, and allowed nobody to thrash me but himself. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, I always meant to..thrash a lord or two who thrashed me at Eton. 1885Manch. Exam. 11 Nov. 3/3 The deacon..thrashes him for wasting his time.
b. In colloq. phrases, as to thrash one's jacket, to thrash the life out of (cf. beat v.1 15).
1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 74 I'll substantially thrash your jacket for you. 1873Black Pr. Thule xvii, If you were half-a-dozen years older, I would thrash the life out of you.
6. To beat completely or thoroughly (beat v.1 10); to defeat or overcome with severe loss in war or fighting, or at a game or contest.
α1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. i. 50 Thou scuruy valiant Asse, thou art heere but to thresh Troyans. 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 13. (1754) 66 They could either thresh corn, or their country's enemies.
β1778Lady S. Lennox Lett. (1901) I. 279 Send them home to thrash the French. 1796Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 256, I shall..take my chance of helping to thrash Don Langara. 1841Lever C. O'Malley lxxii, We had been attacked by the French in force and devilishly well thrashed. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. i, [He] could have thrashed Mr. Grimes himself in fair fight. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 276 The Colonel..has just been thrashing me at billiards. 1903Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 2/3 [incident of June 1815] It touched land, and a man jumped out waving his hat and exclaiming, ‘Hurrah, Wellington has thrashed Boney!’
III. Transferred uses, often referring to both I and II. Usually thrash.
7. a. intr. Naut. To force or work one's way against opposing wind, tide, etc.; = beat v.1 19; said of a ship or of mariners. Also trans. with way. Also refl. and fig.
α1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. v. (ed. 3) 28 We had to return..to our old practice of threshing to windward.
β1830P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 15 Hard labour to..thrash for an hour through blocks of ice before we could get out. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho. xx, The ship thrashed close-hauled through the rolling seas. 1890Clark Russell Marriage at Sea xiii, The steamer was thrashing through it at an exhilarating speed. 1900Daily News 15 Oct. 6/7 The Nuddea encountered the typhoon some distance to the southward of Hong Kong, and..had to thrash her way through it. 1939T. S. Eliot Family Reunion i. ii. 60 The fish Thrashing itself upstream.
b. trans. To force (a ship) forward, esp. against contrary wind or sea. Cf. beat v.1 19 d.
α1886Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 2/1 The captain threshes his great structure through the deep.
β1891Kipling Light that Failed xv. 310 The screw began to thrash the ship along the Docks. 1893― Many Invent. 365 Carry on and thrash her out with all she'll stand.
8. intr. To make wild movements like those of a flail or a whip; to lash out; to throw oneself (or itself) to and fro with violence; to toss, plunge; of hair, branches, or anything free at one end: to flap, whip, lash; esp. with about or around. Also fig. and trans. (refl.) with into.
1846Boston Courier 17 June 2/4 Arter I'd gone to bed & heern Him a thrashin round like a short tailed Bull in fli time. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. v. (1858) 74 [A whale] blindly thrashed and rolled about in great agony. 1875Ld. Shaftesbury in Life (1886) III. xxxiii. 354 He [a preacher] thrashed with his arms, as though he were about to strike. 1883C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/2 The shark squirmed out, thrashing about and snapping its jaws. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn vi. 45 He didn't go sound asleep, but was uneasy. He groaned, and moaned, and thrashed around this way and that. 1891Kipling Light that Failed i. 13 A night-wind thrashed along the bents of the foreshore. Ibid. xiii. 244 The red-haired girl threshed distressfully across the sheets. 1896Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 11 Jan. 4/8 The wounded bears were kicking and thrashing around me. 1897Crockett Lad's Love xxiii, The wind unloosed the banded hair and blew it about.., till it threshed in the man's face and annoyed him. 1900N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Nov. 656/1 They saw the boughs thrash and the tree tops rise and fall like billows round the village. 1962K. A. Porter Ship of Fools 178 He groans and yells and thrashes about at night. 1962K. Kesey One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest iv. 309 It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around. 1973Times 12 Nov. 11/8 His is in many ways a sad life to watch, as he thrashes around for the opening that will bring him fame. 1978R. Barnard Unruly Son xvii. 190 This little detail panicked you..and then you started thrashing around... You did silly things.
refl.1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iii. v. (1868) 327 A broken engine by running will only thresh itself into a more complete wreck.
Hence thrashed, threshed ppl. a.
[c1200Þrosshenn corn: see A. 3 α.] 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 147 They..put some of the Chaff in first, and then their thrashed Wheat. 1805Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 48 A large quantity of thrashed grain is seldom kept. 1867F. Francis Angling vi. (1880) 193 One of our well-thrashed streams.
▪ II. thrash, thresh, n.1
[f. prec. vb.]
†1. ? A threshing implement, a flail: cf. threshel.
1669Penn No Cross xviii. §10 (1682) 368 That the Cart, the Plough, the Thrash should be in that continual Severity laid upon Nineteen parts of the Land, to feed the inordinate Lusts and delicious Appetites of the Twentieth.
2. a. An act or the action of thrashing or threshing; a blow, stroke, knock; a beat or beating.
1840Hood Kilmansegg, Fancy Ball iii, Tories like to worry the Whigs,..Giving them lashes, thrashes, and digs. 1898Blackw. Mag. Sept. 376 It [a boat's progress] was a long monotonous thresh for the rest of the afternoon. 1899Crockett Black Douglas xlii. 305 The thresh of the rain upon the lattice casement. 1902J. Masefield Salt-Water Ball., D Avalos' Prayer iii, The wash and thresh of the sea⁓foam. 1906Outlook 20 Oct. 511/2 A thrash of rain.
b. fig. A dash.
1870J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Charac. xxxv, I appeared in the court..wi' a thrash, and had the case settled in a jiffy.
c. In reduplicated form thresh-thresh, representing the continuous sound of threshing.
1904Blackw. Mag. Apr. 485 A rhythmic thresh-thresh that had accompanied but hardly broken the silence, suddenly ceased.
3. A party, esp. one that is lavish or unrestrained. (Regularly thrash). slang.
1957G. Smith Friends 120, I think he stole away to London for an occasional thrash when it got too much for him, but in general he was a model pupil. 1968K. Amis I want it Now ii. 68 No quiet family party at all, it had turned out, but a twenty-cover thrash. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Feb. 131/3 Staggering..from his sick-bed to play host at an enormous black-tie thrash at a Belgravia mansion borrowed for the night. 1980C. Matthew Loosely Engaged 17 Occasionally someone throws a thrash, but most of the time we just bomb round to Wedgies..and have a bit of a giggle.
Add:[2.] d. A short, energetic, usu. uncomplicated piece or passage of jazz or rock music, esp. one that is very fast and loud.
1969Punch 12 Feb. 245/3 Brian Davies then appeared..to indulge in what was announced as free form improvisation and turned out to be a vaguely modal thrash headed by Lynn Dobson on flute and soprano saxophone. 1986Radio Times 20 Dec. 155/3 When he toured in 1978, audiences were astounded to hear his early folk ramble ‘Masters of war’ reworked as a heavy rock thrash. 1989Melody Maker 25 Nov. 19/1 What I don't get is why The Pastels are still struggling to get to grips with the most basic of three-cord thrashes.
e. A style of fast, loud, harsh-sounding rock music; = thrash metal below; also attrib.
1982N.Y. Times 11 Aug. c19/2 A year ago they were pop-music underdogs, an all-woman band with roots in the anarchic thrash of the Los Angeles punk-rock scene. 1984Sounds 29 Dec. 6/6 Hard-core-thrash merchants Black Flag are to release a new LP. 1987Melody Maker 15 Aug. 10/1 The new single is not a racket. ‘It's a bit more refined... We're a subtle mixture of thrash and melody.’ 1988Time Off (Brisbane) 19 Feb. 15/2 (Advt.), Totally happening Melbourne based glam thrash all-girl rock n roll phenomenon searching for wild drummer... Come on girls! Grab this chance.
4. A motor-sport race, esp. one that is particularly fast and exciting. colloq.
1976Milton Keynes Express 25 June 50/6 Tony Strawson won the Esso Uniflo Special Saloon thrash in his V8-engined Capri—which is currently up for sale. 1986Road Sport Aug. 14/1 Seventy five crews assembled in Richmond town square to tackle the 120 mile thrash on maps 92, 93, 98 and 99. 1987Super Bike June 6/4 This should have been indication enough that the ride was going to be fast, but no one could have predicted the brain out thrash that started the moment we left the car park.
5. Special Comb. thrash metal, a style of fast, loud, harsh-sounding rock music combining elements from both punk rock and heavy metal.
1985Venue 26 Apr. 43 The band played an excellent set of high-speed *thrash metal and were very well received. 1987Guardian 20 Mar. 19/3 The success of the likes of Metallica and Anthrax suggests that thrash metal is about to find itself in a conundrum, coping with commercial success born from a noise designed to outrage. 1989New Yorker 23 Oct. 15/2 This room, which caters to thrash-metal buffs and cooler heads on weeknights, opens its doors on Sundays to swing-music fans.
▪ III. thrash, thresh, n.2 Sc.
Also 7 thrush.
[corrupt. of rash, resh, OE. risc, rush n.1]
A rush. Also attrib., thresh-bush, a clump of rushes.
1697Cleland Poems 30 (Jam.) Their bare preaching now Makes the thrush-bush keep the cow. 1795A. Wilson Spouter in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 335 Green thrashes were strewed on the floor. 1822R. Wilson Poems, Twa Mice (E.D.D.), Wi' their teeth green threshes chackit. 1850J. Struthers Life vi. Poet. Wks. I. p. cxiv, The shelter of a few well-grown thresh-bushes. 1871H. S. Riddell Poet. Wks. II. 127 (E.D.D.) Threshes formed the theekin. |