thursty

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sti === Adjective === thursty (comparative more thursty, superlative most thursty) Obsolete spelling of thirsty. 1548 (in 2006, David A. Copeland, Daniel Schorr, The Idea of a Free Press: The Enlightenment and Its Unruly Legacy, Northwestern University Press (→ISBN), page 53): In 1548, during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, a London newsbook proclaimed that there was a “thursty desyer that all our kynde hath to know.” == Middle English == === Adjective === thursty alternative form of thirsty