US /ˈθɹæŋ/ UK /ˈθɹæŋ/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Northern English and Scots: busy or fully occupied

    The shopkeeper was too thrang to stop and talk.

Etymology

From Middle English thrang, throng (“dense, thick, tight, constrictive”), cognate with Old Norse þrǫngr (“narrow, close, tight”). Related to English thring (“to press”).

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