thrasher

English

Brown thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)

Etymology

Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash +‎ -er.

Noun

thrasher (plural thrashers)

1. One who thrashes.
2. Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
3. A thresher shark.
4. (informal) A fan of thrash metal music.

Derived terms

• brown thrasher
• Cozumel thrasher
• crissal thrasher
• curve-billed thrasher
• pearly-eyed thrasher
• sage thrasher

Translations

one who thrashes

• Finnish: pieksäjä

bird of family Mimidae

• Finnish: matkija (fi)

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