thrawart
Americanadjective
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obstinate or intractable.
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twisted or crooked.
Etymology
Origin of thrawart
1425–75; late Middle English (Scots), alteration of fraward, froward, perhaps under influence of thraw, thrawn
Example Sentences
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You are right, Isabel, and I must just put back my own sair heartache and look after the ungrateful, thrawart woman's wedding cake.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
They saw but a proud, thrawart ploughman, that stood uncow’ring under the glunsh o’ a hail session; and so they opened on him the artillery o’ the kirk, to bear down his pride.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
Ye was aye to yer faither a thrawart bairn, But, my lady, here stan's the king!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
Jim Armstrong, you thrawart bully you, dinna think you are the only man that kens Cumberland cantrips.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Then aunt, wha spun, laid down her roke, An' thus repliet to Mary: Unequal matches in a yoke Draw thrawart and camstrarie.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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