merrythought
noun/ˈmɛɹɪθɔːt/
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English mery English merry Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht Old English þōht Middle English thought English thought English merrythought From merry + thought, traditionally explained with reference to the pleasant thoughts imagined when the bone is ritually broken.
Definitions
The wishbone or furcula.
- One puts yᵉ merrithought on his nose (slightly) like a paire of spectacles, and shakes his head till he shakes it off his nose.
- All Birds want the Channel-bones in the Breast, instead whereof they have a bone, which we call the Merry thought.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for merrythought. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA