Thirsty - Wiktionary

English

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Alternative forms

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• thursty (obsolete)

Etymology

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From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst +‎ -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) enPR: thûrs′tē, IPA(key): /ˈθɝs.ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɜːs.ti/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sti

Adjective

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thirsty (comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)

1. Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thirsty After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.
   • 1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Diggle Water Troughs”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
   • 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 151:Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’
2. (euphemistic) Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal. After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty. Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.
3. (informal, uncommon) Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink. Marching is thirsty work.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
   • 2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, →ISBN:Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.
4. (figurative) Craving something immaterial. Synonym: (archaic) athirst thirsty for knowledge thirsty for attention After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.
   1. (slang, figurative) Craving or desiring sex. Synonym: horny This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him.
      • 2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.
      • 2017 April 4, Carina Chocano, “It’s Easy to Be Called ‘Thirsty’ on Social Media. What About on Capitol Hill?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[2]:Nin was reviled throughout her life and afterward for writing candidly about her desires — something few women are allowed to do without being branded an open wound — and was only recently divested of her status as one of the thirstiest women of the 20th century.

Derived terms

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• bloodthirsty
• I'm thirsty
• thirsty work
• thungry

Related terms

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• thirst
• thirst trap

Translations

[edit] needing to drink — see also parched

Albanian: etur (sq) Arabic: عَطْشَان (ʕaṭšān), ظَمْآن (ẓamʔān) Egyptian Arabic: عطشان (ʕaṭšān) Hijazi Arabic: عطشان (ʕaṭšān) Armenian: ծարավ (hy) (carav) Aromanian: sitos Asturian: sedientu Aymara: phara, waña Azerbaijani: susuz Bashkir: һыуһаған (hıwhağan) Belarusian: які́ хо́ча піць (jakí xóča picʹ) Bengali: তৃষ্ণার্ত (bn) (triśnarto), পিয়াসী (bn) (piẏaśi) Bikol: Central Bikol: paha (bcl) Bulgarian: жа́ден (bg) (žáden) Burmese: ရေငတ် (my) (re-ngat), ရေဆာ (rehca) Catalan: assedegat (ca), sedejant, sedegós (ca), (be thirsty): tenir set Chinese: Cantonese: 口渴 (hau2 hot3), 頸渴 / 颈渴 (geng2 hot3) Hakka: 嘴渴 (choi-hot), 肚渴 (tú-hot) Hokkien: 喙焦 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-ta) Mandarin: 渴 (zh) (kě), 口渴 (zh) (kǒukě) Czech: žíznivý (cs) Danish: tørstig (da) Dutch: dorstig (nl) Esperanto: soifanta Finnish: janoinen (fi) French: (be thirsty): avoir soif (fr), assoiffé (fr) Galician: (be thirsty): ter sede Gallurese: sititu Georgian: მწყურვალი (mc̣q̇urvali), მოწყურებული (moc̣q̇urebuli) German: durstig (de) Greek: διψασμένος (el) (dipsasménos) Ancient Greek: δίψιος (dípsios) Hebrew: צָמֵא (he) (tsamé) Hindi: प्यासा (hi) (pyāsā), तिश्ना (tiśnā) Hmong: White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: szomjas (hu) Icelandic: þyrstur (is) Ido: durstoza (io) Indonesian: haus (id) Irish: indicated by phrases using the noun tart (ga) m "thirst" Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: assetato (it), (be thirsty): avere sete Japanese: 喉が渇いた (のどがかわいた, nodo ga kawaita) Kazakh: сусаған (susağan), шөлдеген (şöldegen) Khmer: ស្រេកទឹក (sreek tɨk) Korean: 목마르다 (ko) (mongmareuda), 갈증나다 (galjeungnada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تینوو (tînû) Northern Kurdish: tî (ku), têhnî (ku) Kyrgyz: суусаган (suusagan), чанкаган (cankagan) Lao: ຫິວນ້ຳ (hiu nam), ຢາກນ້ຳ (yāk nam) Latin: sitiens, siccus, sitibundus Latvian: izslāpis Lithuanian: ištroškęs Lü: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: duuschtereg (lb) Macedonian: жеден (žeden) Malay: dahaga (ms), haus (ms) Māori: matewai, hiawai Marathi: तहानलेला m (tahānlelā), तहानलेले n (tahānlele), तहानलेली f (tahānlelī) Middle English: thirsty, athirst Mongolian: Cyrillic: ангасан (angasan) Nahuatl: āmiqui Norwegian: Bokmål: tørst (no) Nynorsk: tørst Occitan: assedat, (be thirsty): (please verify) aver set Odia: ଶୋଷିଲା (śoṣilā), ତୃଷିତ (or) (truṣita) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: жѩдьнъ (žjędĭnŭ) Old English: þurstiġ (thirsty), þyrstan (to be thirsty) Old Norse: þyrstr Persian: تشنه (fa) (tešne) Plautdietsch: darschtich Polish: spragniony (pl) Portuguese: sequioso (pt), sedento (pt), com sede Quechua: yarqa Romanian: setos (ro), însetat (ro), (be thirsty): i fi sete Romansh: (be thirsty): avair said Russian: жа́ждущий (ru) (žážduščij), томи́мый жа́ждой (tomímyj žáždoj), (verb) хоте́ть пить impf (xotétʹ pitʹ) Sardinian: assididu Campidanese: sídiu Logudorese: sídiu Sassarese: settiu Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: же́дан Latin: žédan (sh) Shan: please add this translation if you can Sicilian: assitatu (scn) Slovak: smädný Slovene: žejen (sl) Spanish: sediento (es), tener sed (be thirsty), sitibundo (es) (poetic), sediente (disused) Swedish: törstig (sv), törstande (sv) (rare) Tagalog: uhaw Tajik: ташна (tašna) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tatar: сусаган (susağan) Tausug: malanggang Thai: กระหาย (th) (grà-hǎai) Tibetan: ཁ་བསྐོམས (kha bskoms) Tocharian B: yokaitse Turkish: susuz (tr) Ottoman Turkish: صوسز (susuz) Turkmen: teşne, suwsan Ukrainian: спра́глий (spráhlyj) Unami: katusëmwi Urdu: پیاسا (pyāsā) Uyghur: ئۇسسىغان (ussighan), ئۇسسىماق (ussimaq), چاڭقىماق (changqimaq) Uzbek: chanqagan (uz), tashna (uz) Venetan: (please verify) arsirà Vietnamese: khát (vi) Welsh: sychedig (cy) Yiddish: דאָרשטיק (dorshtik) Zhuang: hozhawq, hozgan

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Woiwurrung: (please verify) kon bon-non, (please verify) kunpuni

See also

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• hungry
• I'm thirsty

Noun

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thirsty (countable and uncountable, plural thirsties)

1. (usually in the plural) One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).
   • 1919, The Mines Magazine, page 99:The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.
   • 2004, Sura College of Competition, Junior Knowledge Book, page 107:A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.
   • 1990, George Waters, The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening, David R Godine Pub, page 18: Another way to limit the use of thirsty plants […] Here small beds of flowers, azaleas, and other "thirsties" could be grown satisfactorily.
   • 2018, Pijush Kanti Mukherjee, CoMa Chose Life:You are like a stream of water to a thirsty in a desert.
   • 2019, Alessia Ferrari Dream, A medieval Saga:Young Duchess watched the two accomplices, she seemed a thirsty who tastes clear and fresh water after having longed for it: for a moment she preserves an expression that expresses disbelief, as if she had discovered a completely new .
2. Thirst.
   • 1948, Esther Warner, New Song in a Strange Land, page 36:There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."
   • 2012, Joyce Bethwane, You Are Not Your Own, page 58:The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!
   • 2017, Adam Roberts, The Real-Town Murders:Afterwards Marguerite declared herself super-hungry, and also thirsty. 'Not super-thirsty, Regular thirsty. Let's say a thirsty that has worked out, learned martial arts and designed its own bat-suit. But definitely super-hunggry.

Anagrams

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• thristy, t-shirty, T-shirty

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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• thirsti, thursty, þristi
• þrisstiȝ (Ormulum); thrustye, thursti, thyrstye (Late Middle English)
• thresti, thristi, thristie, thristy, thrustie, thrysty, þristy (especially East Anglia, Northern, North Midland)
• fursti, tristi, þhursti, þorste (Southern, West Midland)

Etymology

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Inherited from Old English þurstiġ (with vocalism modified after þyrstan), from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug; by surface analysis, thirst +‎ -y.

For forms with /f/, see thirst.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈθirstiː/, /ˈθurstiː/, /ˈθrustiː/
• IPA(key): /ˈθristiː/, /ˈθrɛstiː/ (East Anglia, Northern, North Midland)
• IPA(key): /ˈfurstiː/ (West Midland, Southern)

Adjective

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thirsty

1. Thirsty; having a need of or desire for hydration.
2. Lacking hydration; arid, dehydrated.
3. Eager, craving; greatly desiring something.
4. (rare) Dehydrating, desiccating; causing thirst.

Descendants

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• English: thirsty
• Middle Scots: thristie, thristy
  • Scots: thristy
  • Shetland: tristy

References

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• “thirstī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “thirsty, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.