Meaning

noun candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults

noun a woman who sings popular songs

noun songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast

originFrom Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh…

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