Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A threepenny piece.
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- noun Optional singular for
thrips , an insect of the order Thysanoptera.
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- noun any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive
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Examples
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Diamond-backed terrapin were abundant, and one never was brought to our dwelling that the bearer could not get in exchange a "thrip" (the old-fashioned six cents), or, if he preferred, a ration of bacon or syrup.
Memoirs of a Southerner Thomas, Edward J 1923
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Diamond-backed terrapin were abundant, and one never was brought to our dwelling that the bearer could not get in exchange a "thrip"
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I saw that photo and said to myself "A thrip" I knew these things once before senility and excessive alcohol got to me.
A new tenant for the snail’s shell AYDIN 2008
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Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme: www. nrf.ac.za/thrip.
CONTENTS: 2007
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Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme: www. nrf.ac.za/thrip.
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The flower thrip (Megalurothrips sjostedti) is a major cowpea pest in tropical Africa.
Chapter 10 1981
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The thrip, a small, rather three-cornered, whitish-green insect, has of late been very troublesome, as they eat the under side of the leaves of some varieties, especially the Delaware and Norton's Virginia, when the leaf will show rusty specks on the surface, and finally drop off.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann
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I'm sorry for poor Buster, becase, ye say, he really don't hanker afther goin 'on the thrip at all, it sames.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel
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'Seven and eight,' said the landlord, 'and a bogus thrip-penny.'
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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While it is a great satisfaction to have a hothouse or hotbeds and grow vegetables in winter, the life of the market gardener is not one continuous round of pleasure, as lice, white fly, red spider and thrip, mildew and fungous rot are always ready for a fight, and the gardener must always be on his guard and beat them to it at their first appearance, or the labor of weeks will be lost.
chained_bear commented on the word thrip
Merriam-Webster: any of an order (Thysanoptera) of small to minute sucking insects, many of which feed often destructively on plant juices.
OED: noun. slang for threepence. Usage: "A little boy who wanted to buy a thrip's worth of candy."
Also verb. To make a noise with thumb and fingers; to snap.
I like Merriam-Webster better.
February 5, 2007
yarb commented on the word thrip
There was a parasite, & he with clapping his hands and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike to and fro.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word thrip
Thrip. I just love saying this word. Thrip. Thrip. Thrip. (See plinth.)
February 22, 2011