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Throng

//θɹɔŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Filled with persons or objects; crowded. Northern-England, Scotland

    "Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavès throng / And louchèd low grass, heaven that dost appeal / To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel; / That canst but only be, but dost that long— […]"

  2. 2
    Busy; hurried. Northern-England, Scotland

    "Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him."

Noun
  1. 1
    A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.

    "Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng."

  2. 2
    a large gathering of people wordnet
  3. 3
    A group of things; a host or swarm.

    "Bloody corpses, broken bones reveal / A throng of clashes crushed, our nightmare sealed / Amongst the shadows and the stones"

Verb
  1. 1
    To crowd into a place, especially to fill it. transitive

    "By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country."

  2. 2
    press tightly together or cram wordnet
  3. 3
    To congregate. intransitive

    "[…]I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak:[…]"

  4. 4
    To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. transitive

    "Much people followed him, and thronged him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).

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