Its authors speculate that kombucha “may be very healthful” in combating yeast infections, thrush, and other forms of candidiasis.
A thrush sat in the hedge, and she was singing her morning song.
However, when you can't get a thrush, eat a blackbird, as the proverb says.
No amount of hushing has any effect; you might just as well hush a blackbird or a thrush.
He was talking with her in an English garden and a thrush was singing overhead.
The thrush sang his two syllables on the budding guelder-rose.
Tease a thrush, or even a lark, and you will soon be convinced.
And when they looked up, who should they see perched on a branch but the thrush.
The thrush is right, that is the sweetest music that was ever heard in all the world.
“Oh, it is where it always was, and where it always will be,” said the thrush.
type of songbird, Old English þyrsce (related to throstle), from Proto-Germanic *thruskjon (cf. Old Norse þröstr, Norwegian trost, Old High German drosca), from PIE *trozdo- (cf. Latin turdus, Lithuainian strazdas "thrush," Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy "starling," Old Church Slavonic drozgu, Russian drozdu).
throat disease, 1660s, probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian, Danish trøske, Swedish torsk), but its roots and original meaning are unclear.
thrush (thrŭsh)
n.
A contagious disease caused by a fungus, Candida albicans, that occurs most often in infants and children, characterized by small whitish eruptions on the mouth, throat, and tongue, and usually accompanied by fever, colic, and diarrhea.
