thrawart

[ thrah-wert ]

adjectiveScot.
  1. obstinate or intractable.

  2. twisted or crooked.

Origin of thrawart

1
1425–75; late Middle English (Scots), alteration of fraward, froward, perhaps under influence of thraw, thrawn
  • Also thra·ward [thrah-werd]. /ˈθrɑ wərd/.

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