different between thaw vs thawy

English

Alternative forms

• thow

Etymology

From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þ?wian, from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

thaw (third-person singular simple present thaws, present participle thawing, simple past and past participle thawed)

1. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen

2. (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.

4. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
   • 1700, John Dryden, "Palamon and Arcite", in Fables, Ancient and Modern:

     The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.

Translations

Noun

thaw (plural thaws)

1. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
2. a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen

   • raging floods pursue their hasty thaw ;
     Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away

Translations

See also

• unthaw, dethaw
• snowmelt

Anagrams

• HAWT, Wath, hawt, wath, what

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?/

Verb

thaw

1. Aspirate mutation of taw.

Mutation

English

Etymology

From thaw +? -y.

Adjective

thawy (comparative more thawy, superlative most thawy)

1. Becoming liquid; thawing; inclined to or tending to thaw.
2. Conducive to thawing.
   • 1845, Daniel Pierce Thompson, Locke Amsden, Or, The Schoolmaster: a Tale, 1855, page 96,

     A warm and broken December had been succeeded by a still warmer and more thawy January.

   • c. 1847, Elkanah Walker, 1976, Clifford Merrill Drury (editor), Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker, page 392,

     It has been more thawy to day but there was not much prospect that the weather will be favorable right away.