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Word entry · 6 letters

throat

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈθɹəʊt/Part of speech nounSorted ahorttStarts with TEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat

Word origin

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

Used in a sentence

  • The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
  • The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.
  • As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

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