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thrasher

[ thrash-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that thrashes.
  2. any of several long-tailed, thrushlike birds, especially of the genus Toxostoma, related to the mockingbirds. Compare brown thrasher.


thrasher

1

/ ˈθræʃə /

noun

  1. another name for thresher
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


thrasher

2

/ ˈθræʃə /

noun

  1. any of various brown thrushlike American songbirds of the genus Toxostoma and related genera, having a long downward-curving bill and long tail: family Mimidae (mockingbirds)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thrasher1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; thrash, -er 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of thrasher1

C19: perhaps from English dialect thresher, thrusher a thrush
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Example Sentences

“You might want to come over and look at this,” his wife, Pat Thrasher, suddenly called out.

Steven W. Thrasher was named Journalist of the Year 2012 by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

He slouches in his tall frame, wears a Thrasher T shirt to an interview and on this particular morning has sticky-looking hair.

Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,—the chewink and the brown thrasher.

It proved to be written in cipher, but Mr. Thrasher declared himself ignorant alike of its contents and its author.

Taken as a whole I think that the song of this Thrasher is the most musical and pleasing of any that I have ever heard.

I hear the notes of a Thrasher in those bushes, and the Red-winged Blackbirds are calling all through the marsh meadow.

There is the big brown bird that you call a Thrasher, with his striped breast and long tail that spreads like a fan.

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