drossel

• dratchell, drotchel, drotchell

Compare drazel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒsəl/

drossel (plural drossels)

1. (obsolete) A slut; a hussy.
   • 1602, William Warner, Albion's England:

     Now dwels each Drossell in her Glasse.

• “drossel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• dorsels, rodless, solders

From Middle Low German drossel, from Old Saxon thrōsla, from Proto-West Germanic *þrostlā (“thrush”).

Displaced native Danish trost (“thrush”).

drossel c (singular definite drosselen or droslen, plural indefinite drosler)

1. thrush (Turdidae)

• trost

• spottedrossel c

• “drossel” in Den Danske Ordbog

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drossel

1. inflection of drosseln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative