thow - From Ulster to America
Source: From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English
Author: Michael Montgomery
Comments: From Ulster to America recounts the lasting impact eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster have made on the development of the English language of the United States. The book documents over 500 vocabulary items contributed to American English by these ‘Scotch-Irish’ settlers. Each ‘shared’ term with its meaning is authenticated by quotations from both sides of the Atlantic. This searchable online version of his book takes its text from the dictionary part of the second edition published by the Ullans Press in 2017.
thow, tho vb To throw (past-tense and past-participle forms thowed, thew).
Ulst.:
1983 Pepper Ulster Knowledge 60 I thew it out.
1986 Pepper Ulster Haunbook 33 Get out the brush and map. It’s tidying up time. Tho out all the junk you can get your hands on.
1997 Robinson Grammar 61 Particularly around Belfast, the letter ‘r’ is dropped after ‘th’ in words like ‘throw’, ‘through’, ‘throttle’ and ‘three’.
U.S.:
1801 Osborn Diary (7 Mar) I Thowed up my singlings in order for to Double.
1939 Hall Coll That’s the nature of a turkey, to th’ow its head up.
1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll VIII-2 [The creature] has thowed a stick at us before, for disturbing it.
