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What (who) is thorn - definition

LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET
Þorn; Thorn (linguistics); Þ; Þþ; Faux Olde English; Thorn letter; Thorn (character); Thorn character; THth; U+00FE; U+00DE
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Thorns; Thorn (disambiguation); Thorns (album); Thorns (disambiguation); Thorns (Album); Thorn (song); The Thorn; The Thorns
n.
1) to remove a thorn (from one's finger)
2) (misc.) a thorn in one's side ('a source of irritation')
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Thorns; Thorn (disambiguation); Thorns (album); Thorns (disambiguation); Thorns (Album); Thorn (song); The Thorn; The Thorns
·vt To prick, as with a thorn.
II. Thorn ·noun Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
III. Thorn ·noun A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
IV. Thorn ·noun Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
V. Thorn ·noun The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter, (capital form). It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
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Thorns; Thorn (disambiguation); Thorns (album); Thorns (disambiguation); Thorns (Album); Thorn (song); The Thorn; The Thorns
¦ noun
1. a stiff, sharp-pointed woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.
2. a thorny bush, shrub, or tree, especially a hawthorn.
3. an Old English and Icelandic runic letter, . or ?, representing the dental fricatives ? and ?, eventually superseded by the digraph th.
Phrases
a thorn in someone's side (or flesh) a source of continual annoyance or trouble.
Derivatives
thorned adjective
thornless adjective
Origin
OE, of Gmc origin; the OE letter was named from the word of which it was the first letter.

Wikipedia

Thorn (letter)

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the rune in the Elder Fuþark and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs in the Scandinavian rune poems. It is similar in appearance to the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are historically unrelated. The only language in which þ is currently in use is Icelandic.

It is pronounced as either a voiceless dental fricative [θ] or its voiced counterpart [ð]. However, in modern Icelandic, it is pronounced as a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative [θ̠], similar to th as in the English word thick, or a (usually apical) voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative [ð̠], similar to th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ⟨Ð, ð⟩; however, [ð̠] may occur as an allophone of /θ̠/, and written ⟨þ⟩, when it appears in an unstressed pronoun or adverb after a voiced sound.

In typography, the lowercase thorn character is unusual in that it has both an ascender and a descender (other examples are the lowercase Cyrillic ф, and, in some [especially italic] fonts, the Latin letters f and ſ [long s]).

Examples of use of thorn
1. Wan has been a thorn in the government‘s side throughout.
2. Thorn was born in Luxembourg city, Sept. 3, 1'28.
3. I sense we are becoming a thorn in Russia‘s side.
4. "He‘s a thorn in the true conservative‘s side," broadcast Ben Ferguson.
5. "He asked the state trooper to take the dog first," Thorn said.