Thorn (comics)
WordNet
noun
(1) Something that causes irritation and annoyance
"He's a thorn in my flesh"
(2) A Germanic character of runic origin
(3) A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
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Etymology
From and , from , from , possibly derived from . Near cognates include German and Gothic . Further cognates include Old Church Slavonic and Sanskrit .
Noun
- A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
- See also Etymology of ye (definite article).