thursty

Adjective

1. Obsolete spelling of thirsty.
   • In 1548, during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, a London newsbook proclaimed that there was a “thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know.” - 1548 (in 2006, David A. Copeland, Daniel Schorr, The Idea of a...
   • All soules that be thursty bid threshe out for mawlt: - 1557, Thomas Tusser, “A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, published 1810, page 9:
   • Compare that wi' drinkin when you're thursty — either clear well-water, or sour- milk, or sma' yill, or porter, or speerits half-and-half, and then I wad say that eatin and drinkin's pretty much of a muchness... - 1887,...