Lexicographical Neighbors of Thatchy
Literary usage of Thatchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"The milk tastes ' thatchy ' because the cows eat 'thatch.' A long, coarse grass,
growing in the salt marshes, is known as ' thatch ' on the New Hampshire ..."
2. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"Sullivan had stood up from his stenotype machine, just below the brow of the
judge's bench, and was stretching. Sullivan was a good- looking, thatchy-haired ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... unable to take Trautenau, set fire to it, though it is their own town, their
own Queen's town: thatchy Trautenau, wooden too in the upper stories of it, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... unable to take Trautenau, set fire to it, though it is their own town, their
own Queen's town: thatchy Trautenau, wooden too in the upper stories of it, ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... unable to take Trautenau, set fire to it, though it is their own town, their
own Queen's town: thatchy Trautenau, wooden too in the upper stories of it, ..."
6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... as "thatch," and the unpleasant Havor given by it to milk and butter is called "
thatchy. " 2. 3. cynosuroides, Willd. Culms 2 to 6 feet high, ..."
7. History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... unable to take Trautenau, set fire to it, though it is their own town, their
own Queen's town: thatchy Trautenau, wooden too in ..."
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