Read full poem →Sweet ladies, long may ye bloom, and toughly I hope ye may
thole,
But was she not lucky? In flowers and lace and mourning,
Dictionary Entry
The ability to bear or endure something; endurance, patience.
In a Sentence
“He’s got no thole for nonsense.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
pins thole. tholepin tholeet thole
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “thole”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But first he gaed to his gude wyfe,
Wi' a' the haste that he could thole--
"This wark," quo' he, "will ne'er gae weel,