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Definition of 'thay'English
Etymology 1
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* {{quote-book|year=1861|author=Thomas Hughes|title=Tom Brown at Oxford|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage="The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir," went on the keeper, getting confidential, "is thay cussed night-line poachers." }}
Etymology 2
Verb
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* {{quote-book|year=1868|author=Sophie May|title=Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage="Good girlth don't thay tho," said sweet little Charlie rather shocked. }}
* {{quote-book|year=1903|author=Burt L. Standish|title=Frank Merriwell's Bravery|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?}}
Etymology 3
Pronoun
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* {{quote-book|year=1506|author=Alexander Barclay|title=The Ship of Fools, Volume 1|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=Yet fynde I another sort almoste as bad as thay . }}
* {{quote-book|year=1566|author=John Knox|title=The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger. }}
* {{quote-book|year=1838|author=William Makepeace Thackeray|title=Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush|chapter=|edition= citation
|passage=Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs. }}
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