thou

Plural: thou, thous

Noun

the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

Pron

Nominative singular of ye (“you”).

Verb

Verb Forms: thoued, thouing, thous

To address someone using the archaic second-person pronoun "thou."
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
To use the word thou.

Adv

Misspelling of though.

Conj

Misspelling of though.

Examples

Don’t thou them as thous thee! – a Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children
He would THOU his opponent dramatically after a particularly clever Words With Friends play.
We just wanted to take off a few thou, which we easily did with fine sandpaper.
Whoa there, big spender — that'll cost you a few thou. Are you sure you can afford it?

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”).
cognates and usage evolution
The English word is cognate with Saterland Frisian du (“thou”), West Frisian do (“thou”), dialectal Dutch du, dou, douw (“thou”), Limburgish doe (“thou”), Low German du (“thou”), German du (“thou”), Danish du (“thou”), Swedish du (“thou”), Norwegian Nynorsk du (“thou”), Faroese tú (“thou”), Icelandic þú (“thou”), Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þu, “thou”), Latin tu, Ancient Greek σύ (sú) (Doric Ancient Greek τύ (tú), Greek εσύ (esý)), Irish tu, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic тꙑ (ty), Welsh ti, Armenian դու (du), Albanian ti, Persian تو (to).
The informality of thou and its replacement by ye in formal situations date only to the 14th century and come from French influence, since French (as many European languages, but not Old English) uses the second-person plural (vous) instead of the second-person singular (tu) as a mark of politeness or respect.

Synonyms

1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thousand, yard, ;, G#Noun, K#Noun, grand#Noun, k#Noun, large, mil, mill, thee

Antonyms

you

Scrabble Score: 7

thou: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
thou: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thou: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

thou: valid Words With Friends Word