thruff

Pronunciation spelling of through.

Preposition

  1. Pronunciation spelling of through.
    • Nobbut a bit on it's left, an' I meän'd to 'a stubb'd it at fall, Done it ta-year I meän'd, an' runn'd plow thruff it an' all, […] - 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Northern Farmer”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon &...
    • […] voices o' deed folks, an' hands wi'outen airms, that came i' tha darklins, moanin' an' cryin an' beckonin' all night thruff; […] - 1891 June, “Legends of the Cars”, in Folk-lore: A Quarterly Review, volume II,...
    • He pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab, on which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff. "Read the lies on that thruff-stean," he said. - 1897, Bram Stoker, “Mina Murray’s...

Origin

Reflecting a dialectal pronunciation where the sound of (/x/) in English thurgh altered to /f/, as in standard English rough, tough, etc.