thrush n.
(US)1. a woman singer.
Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 14 June 2/3: Kit tie Burke, known as the‘"Irish Thrush,’ is making a hit out West . | ||
On Broadway 26 Apr. [synd. col.] Toni Lane, the thrush, is at French hosp after a motor accident. | ||
Harder They Fall (1971) 93: The Latin thrush who beat up the bandleader’s wife. | ||
Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 3: From the top of the hill stroll the mellow frames threaded on down and nobody lame. There’s [...] a lush little thrush called Sweetie Pie. | ||
Mad mag. June 44: [in Winchell parody] Tondelyo Furd, the dee-lovely, dee-lightful Broadway and Hollywood nightclub thrush. | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 71: canary. A woman, sometimes a whore, and frequently but not necessarily a singer, a.k.a. chirp or thrush. |
2. the female pubic hair.
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 97: Well, I took her ’round the waist an’ I gently laid her down [...] While the blackbird and the thrush were a banging in the brush, / I wound up her little ball of yarn, yarn, yarn. | ||
Ozark Folksongs and Folklore I 97: The blackbird is the penis, and the thrush is the woman’s downy pubis. |