thou
/ðaʊ/ verb C2- 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
- To use the word thou.
He/she/it thous · Past thoued · Past participle thoued · -ing form thouing
Verb forms
- Base form
- thou
- He/she/it
- thous
- Past
- thoued
- Past participle
- thoued
- -ing form
- thouing
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I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing.”
The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.” The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?”
“And pray how do I and these my friends around me seem to you?” “Thou art,” he said, “a most excellent Ape, and all these thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too.” The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave him over to the teeth and claws of his companions.
The Lion said to the Fox, “It is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.”
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