thoo

thoo

1. Eye dialect spelling of through.

thoo

1. (Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you.

• Historically also used north of the Humber-Lume line in (Northern) England, but now rare there.

• Hoot, Htoo, OTOH, hoot, otoh, toho

From Middle English thou, thow, thu, þou, from Old English þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

thoo (objective case thee, vocative thee, possessive determiner thee)

1. (Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you

   Thoo kens whit hid's like wi a hooseful o folk

   You know what it's like with a houseful of people

• thoo is used to address a friend, a family member or someone younger.

• "thoo" in The Orkney Dictionary, 1996, by Margaret Flaws and Gregor Lamb