Dictionary

thready en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.

Meanings

1. Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
   • The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies. 1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Water Betony⸝ or Broune-wurte”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Sundry Sortes of Herbes and Plantes), page 44:
2. (of a pulse) weak.
   • A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present. 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329:

Forms

Deriveds

threadily · threadiness

Relateds

threaden

Translations (1)

cs vláknitý (filamentous)