Major Winchester on finding out he's staying at MASH

I know here on RP ! There are bound to be some stories of having to serve and thole with the likes of the character Charles Emerson Winchester III ! Even today ,There are quite a few people like him from the TV series M*A*S*H that fits the profile.

Word of the Day : April 12, 2019

thole

verb THOHL

Definition :

chiefly dialectal : endure

Did You Know ?


Thole has a long history in the English language. It existed in Middle English in its current form, and in Old English in the form tholian, but in these modern times, it tholes only in a few of England's northern dialects. It has, however, a linguistic cousin far more familiar to most English speakers: the word tolerate traces back to Latin tolerare, meaning "to endure, put up with," and tolerare and tholian share a kinship with the Greek verb tlēnai, meaning "to bear." Unrelated to our featured word thole, there is another (also very old) thole, which can be used as a synonym of peg or pin, or can refer to either of a pair of pins set in the gunwale of a boat to hold an oar in place.

Examples :

"There was now temptation to resist, as well as pain to thole." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, 1886.

"They view bad weather—whether it be a temperature of minus 14 or the northerly wind that comes howling down the loch—as a pleasurable challenge rather than something to be tholed." — Peter Ross, The Scotsman, 1 Oct. 2012.