I could ask AI or Google it, but I rather ask another human who appears to be passionate about a word. Where else is this word used as you really only see it in the death throes context but what else could throes?
Comment on False Fronts
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 months ago*throes
I mean, I understood the comment just fine, but throe is kind of a neat word and it’s a shame not to use it.
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Mostly I hear it in the idiom death throes, or in the throes of passion, but occasionally it pops up in other contexts to describe painful spasms, or difficult upheavals, like workers in the throes of economic turmoil, or the throes of childbirth.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a pleasant word. It’s basically pain or difficulty.
Childbirth is another “in the throes of…”
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I am in the throes of a meltdown today due to enshitification on the developer tools I use.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s a good use of it.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, y’know… 😏
57239478563@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh thanks for the feedback! I forgot it was its own word hehe