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thrawart

[ thrah-wert ]

adjective

, Scot.
  1. obstinate or intractable.
  2. twisted or crooked.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thrawart1

1425–75; late Middle English (Scots), alteration of fraward, froward, perhaps under influence of thraw, thrawn

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