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hob-thrush, hob-thrust Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7– hob-thurst.
[f. Hob n.1+ (perh.) thurse, ON. þurs giant, goblin.]
1. A goblin: see quots. Now dial.
1590Tarlton News Purgat. (Shaks. Soc.) 55 One of those Familiares Lares..as Hob Thrust, Robin Goodfellow and such like spirites..famozed in every olde wives chronicle for their mad merrye prankes. 1611Cotgr., Loup-garou,..also, a Hobgoblin, Hob-thrush, Robin-good-fellow. 1713Steele Guardian No. 30 ⁋4 Our own rustical superstition of hob-thrushes, fairies, goblins, and witches. 1825Brockett, Hobthrust, a local spirit, famous for whimsical pranks. 1867Murray's Handbk. Yorksh. 228 Hob Thrush, or ‘Hob o' th' Hurst’ was a woodland and mountain spirit. 1877Holderness Gloss., Hob-thrust..a good-natured goblin who assists servant-maids in their early morning work, but in a state of nudity.
†b. ? Lycanthropy. Obs. (App. an erron. transl. of F. loup-garou lycanthrope, through a misunderstanding of Cotgrave's definition.)
1658tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. xi. 47, I cure sick Persons of the Hob-thrush, by giving them a blow with a forke just between the two eyes.
c. Applied opprobriously to a rustic. dial.
1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 91 That any ignorant rural Hobthurst should call the Spirit of Nature..a prodigious Hobgoblin. 1854Bamford Dial. S. Lanc. 188 (Lanc. Gloss.) ‘Theau great hobthurst.’
2. (In full hob-thrush louse). A wood-louse. dial.
1828Craven Dial., Hob-thrush-louse, Millepes. 1873Swaledale Gloss., Hobthrush, a wall-louse. |