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Etymology
Origin of thrasher
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at thrash, -er 1
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Lead single “Lux Æterna” is a serviceable thrasher in keeping with 2016’s “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct,” the band’s previous album which marked a bit of a return to form for the OG metal titans.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
“In 2015, I had great blue heron, red-bellied woodpecker, American crow, American robin, brown thrasher, northern parula, pine warbler, yellow-throated warbler, chipping sparrow, white-throated sparrow.”
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2019
This was a brown thrasher, he told me, describing its attributes with a mix of precision and fondness — “rufous brown, speckled on the breast, yellow eye, curved beak, long tail.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019
Franzen excitedly thinks he’s caught sight of a Californian thrasher, a long-tailed songbird with a curved beak.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2018
A brown thrasher sits on a twig imitating all the birds in his area.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Skateboarders call it “pumping,” and it’s a skill that both Olympic medalists and aspiring thrashers use to build launch speed from what seems like thin air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024
During a brutal 2012 heat wave, defunct Washington thrashers Black Breath played an industrial space-turned-punk house that acted like an oven in the summer and an ice box in the winter.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Populations of American crows, tufted titmice, gray catbirds and brown thrashers dropped below normal during the cicada emergence year—and then increased the following year, after which they stabilized.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2021
From outside would come the resolute tapping of woodpeckers and the morning calls of gray catbirds, brown thrashers, and mockingbirds, all singing their hearts out.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
In the small town of Donovan the robins had been wiped out, as had the grackles, starlings, and brown thrashers.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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