death throen.

Brit.

/ˈdɛ(θ) θrəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈdɛ(θ) ˌθroʊ/

Forms:

α. Middle English deþ þrowe, 1600s– death throe; also Scottish pre-1700 deitht thrau, 1900s– death thraw.

β. Chiefly northern Middle English dead thraw, Middle English dede thrawe, Middle English dede þrawe, Middle English ded thrau; Scottish pre-1700 dead throwe, pre-1700 dede thraw, pre-1700 ded thraw, pre-1700 1700s–1800s dead throw, pre-1700 1700s– dead thraw, pre-1700 1800s– deid thraw, 1800s deed thraw, 1900s– dead traa (Shetland).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., throe n.

Etymology: < death n. + throe n. In later use in β. forms perhaps partly showing reanalysis of the initial element as dead adj. or dead n.

1. In singular or (now usually) plural. Intense or violent pain and struggle accompanying death; the agony of death. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes

throwingeOE

death throec1300

throec1300

stour1340

bale-stourc1400

gasping1440

agonya1500

(one's) last gasp1564

death flurry1831

α.

c1300 St. Christopher (Harl.) l. 192 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 64 Þat hire deþ þrowes [Laud deþes þrowes] were stronge.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 721 (MED) Jn his deþ-þrowe he was swowe.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 95 Darius vas in the agonya and deitht thrau.

1809 Tradesman 1 May 406 Glutting his revenge by the anticipated enjoyment of the death-throes of his victims.

a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. xiii. 222 The death-throes of Rome were long and terrible.

1898 M. C. Harris Corner of Spain xix. 175 There is a horrible monotony about their [sc. bulls'] dying always. I mean in their death-throes.

1928 J. A. Dunn Flower of Fate xiv. 195 The mountain was bellowing and struggling like a chained monster from whose wounded sides and throat red, scalding, blood-like lava was pouring in death throes.

1963 A. Ginsberg Let. 5 May (2008) 284 Most beggars and lepers okay... But a couple a week are really in classic shit-rag death throes.

1996 S. Livingstone Sc. Customs (2000) 62 If the death thraws had been violent the bones would be twisted.

2007 51st London Film Festival (British Film Institute programme) 23/1 Layale is in the death-throes of a failing relationship with a married man.

β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26659 Quen ded thraus smites smert.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 358 When hur husband lay in dead thrawis.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 119 Sum in the deid~thraw la walterand in swoun.1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 272 Like to ane fische fast in the nette, in deadthraw [ed. 2 deid-thraw] vndeceist.1691 Hutcheson's 45 Serm. on CXXX Psalm xlv. 481 When sin is in the dead-throws, it may vex him most with strugling.a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1773) III. 126 If conscience be but in the dead throw with the thief, and not quite dead.1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ix. 148 Ye maun come hame, sir,—for my lady's in the dead-thraw.1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 144 While it is the dead-throw, the last gasp and termination of life to the Papal Beast.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 301 Here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance..: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the ‘dead-thraw’.1871 D. Gilmour Reminisc. Pen Folk (1873) 10 He was in the dead-thraws or I left—the turn o' the nicht'll bring a change.1903 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Spectre of Power iii. 70 Puir chield! I doubt na he is in the dead thraw!1931 ‘I. Burnett’ Ravens enter House 214 ‘The auld wife was just in the deid-thraws,’ said Colin; ‘could we flit her wi' the rattle in her throat?’1993 J. A. Begg Auld Jenny Heron in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech The frichtsome deid-thraws o a muckle great eel.

2. Scottish and English regional (northern). An intermediate or transitional state; a turning point between stages. Chiefly in in the deid thraw: between hot and cold, frozen and thawed, fresh and stale, etc. (see quots.). Now rare.

ΚΠ

?1590 King James VI Let. 19 Feb. in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk of Scotl. (1844) V. 82 Getting..good craftsmen..for ending out the halfe perfytted Abbey, that lyes in suche a dead thraw as did the hoastie..betuixt the Spangnell preests hands.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 224 Nor is he a thorow childe of light, but as we say, in the dead-throw, in the place of breaking forth of children.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Dede-Thraw Meat is said to be in the dead-thraw, when it is neither cold nor hot... Anything is said to be ‘left in the dead-thraw’, when left unfinished.

1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. vii. 199 One of those sort of winter days..when the weather is what the shepherds call ‘in the deadthraw’, that is, in a struggle between frost and thaw.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet xx Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning.

1905 Eng. Dial. Dict.: Suppl. 85/1 [Caithness.] In the dead thraw, of fish: not fresh.

1915 H. Beaton At Back o' Benachie 12 If the weather was frosty..feet and hands were in the ‘deid thraw’ or ‘dauvert’, so that when the washers reached home and put them in warm water, they ‘dirl't’ and ‘stoon't’ like to sicken them.

1945 Scots Mag. Feb. 378 The day's deen. The year's at the deid-thraw.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	death throe
释义	death throen. Brit. /ˈdɛ(θ) θrəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɛ(θ) ˌθroʊ/ Forms: α. Middle English deþ þrowe, 1600s– death throe; also Scottish pre-1700 deitht thrau, 1900s– death thraw. β. Chiefly northern Middle English dead thraw, Middle English dede thrawe, Middle English dede þrawe, Middle English ded thrau; Scottish pre-1700 dead throwe, pre-1700 dede thraw, pre-1700 ded thraw, pre-1700 1700s–1800s dead throw, pre-1700 1700s– dead thraw, pre-1700 1800s– deid thraw, 1800s deed thraw, 1900s– dead traa (Shetland). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., throe n. Etymology: < death n. + throe n. In later use in β. forms perhaps partly showing reanalysis of the initial element as dead adj. or dead n. 1. In singular or (now usually) plural. Intense or violent pain and struggle accompanying death; the agony of death. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes throwingeOE death throec1300 throec1300 stour1340 bale-stourc1400 gasping1440 agonya1500 (one's) last gasp1564 death flurry1831 α. c1300 St. Christopher (Harl.) l. 192 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 64 Þat hire deþ þrowes [Laud deþes þrowes] were stronge. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 721 (MED) Jn his deþ-þrowe he was swowe. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xiv. 95 Darius vas in the agonya and deitht thrau. 1809 Tradesman 1 May 406 Glutting his revenge by the anticipated enjoyment of the death-throes of his victims. a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. xiii. 222 The death-throes of Rome were long and terrible. 1898 M. C. Harris Corner of Spain xix. 175 There is a horrible monotony about their [sc. bulls'] dying always. I mean in their death-throes. 1928 J. A. Dunn Flower of Fate xiv. 195 The mountain was bellowing and struggling like a chained monster from whose wounded sides and throat red, scalding, blood-like lava was pouring in death throes. 1963 A. Ginsberg Let. 5 May (2008) 284 Most beggars and lepers okay... But a couple a week are really in classic shit-rag death throes. 1996 S. Livingstone Sc. Customs (2000) 62 If the death thraws had been violent the bones would be twisted. 2007 51st London Film Festival (British Film Institute programme) 23/1 Layale is in the death-throes of a failing relationship with a married man. β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26659 Quen ded thraus smites smert.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 358 When hur husband lay in dead thrawis.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 119 Sum in the deid~thraw la walterand in swoun.1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 272 Like to ane fische fast in the nette, in deadthraw [ed. 2 deid-thraw] vndeceist.1691 Hutcheson's 45 Serm. on CXXX Psalm xlv. 481 When sin is in the dead-throws, it may vex him most with strugling.a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1773) III. 126 If conscience be but in the dead throw with the thief, and not quite dead.1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ix. 148 Ye maun come hame, sir,—for my lady's in the dead-thraw.1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 144 While it is the dead-throw, the last gasp and termination of life to the Papal Beast.1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 301 Here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance..: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the ‘dead-thraw’.1871 D. Gilmour Reminisc. Pen Folk (1873) 10 He was in the dead-thraws or I left—the turn o' the nicht'll bring a change.1903 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Spectre of Power iii. 70 Puir chield! I doubt na he is in the dead thraw!1931 ‘I. Burnett’ Ravens enter House 214 ‘The auld wife was just in the deid-thraws,’ said Colin; ‘could we flit her wi' the rattle in her throat?’1993 J. A. Begg Auld Jenny Heron in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech The frichtsome deid-thraws o a muckle great eel. 2. Scottish and English regional (northern). An intermediate or transitional state; a turning point between stages. Chiefly in in the deid thraw: between hot and cold, frozen and thawed, fresh and stale, etc. (see quots.). Now rare. ΚΠ ?1590 King James VI Let. 19 Feb. in D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk of Scotl. (1844) V. 82 Getting..good craftsmen..for ending out the halfe perfytted Abbey, that lyes in suche a dead thraw as did the hoastie..betuixt the Spangnell preests hands. 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxi. 224 Nor is he a thorow childe of light, but as we say, in the dead-throw, in the place of breaking forth of children. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Dede-Thraw Meat is said to be in the dead-thraw, when it is neither cold nor hot... Anything is said to be ‘left in the dead-thraw’, when left unfinished. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. vii. 199 One of those sort of winter days..when the weather is what the shepherds call ‘in the deadthraw’, that is, in a struggle between frost and thaw. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet xx Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict.: Suppl. 85/1 [Caithness.] In the dead thraw, of fish: not fresh. 1915 H. Beaton At Back o' Benachie 12 If the weather was frosty..feet and hands were in the ‘deid thraw’ or ‘dauvert’, so that when the washers reached home and put them in warm water, they ‘dirl't’ and ‘stoon't’ like to sicken them. 1945 Scots Mag. Feb. 378 The day's deen. The year's at the deid-thraw. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300
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