thouverb詞源 2/ðaʊ/

• 1

  To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.

  • Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children
  • Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! / I am come of good kin, I tell thee! / My mother was a lady of the stews' blood born, / And (knight of the halter) my father ware an horn; / Therefore I take it in full great scorn, / That thou shouldest thus check me.
• 2

  To use the word thou.

  • The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.
  • You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.

thounoun詞源 3/θaʊ/

• 1

  A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).

  • We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.
  • But to continue, "At Horwich they had gone all scientific, and talked in 'thous.,' though apparently some of their work was to the nearest half-inch. […]."

thounoun詞源 4/θaʊ/

• 1

  slangA thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

  • Whoa there, big spender — that'll cost you a few thou. Are you sure you can afford it?
  • Butch [Cassidy] gave him 3 thous in cash 1 thous for the lawyer another thous if the lawyer wins & 1 thous for Tom O'Day.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context
• ye
• though