thrush

1. 1.

   candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults

   Broadercandidiasis
2. 2.

   a woman who sings popular songs

   Broadersinger

   colloquialism

3. 3.

   songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast

   Broaderoscine

   Narrowermissel thrushsong thrushfieldfareredwingblackbirdring ouzelrobinclay-colored robinhermit thrushveery

   Part ofTurdidae

Other forms of thrush

plural

thrushes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about thrush

What does thrush mean?

thrush means "candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thrush?

thrush has 1 syllable: thrush. In IPA it is /ˈθɹʌʃ/.

Is thrush a common word?

thrush is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.