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thraward, a. Sc.|ˈθrɔːwəd|
Also 5–9 thrawart, 6 thrauard (threwart), 7 thrawert.
[app. altered from the earlier fraward (c 1200), froward, perh. under the influence of thraw v., thrawn, etc. But cf. mod.Sc. dial thra, thrae, for fra, frae.]
1. Disposed to turn aside from the proper way; froward, refractory, perverse, adverse. arch.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xii. (Wolf & Lamb) vii, His exhorbetand and thrawart [ed. 1570 frawart] pleid. 1508Dunbar Flyting 108 In sic is sett thy thraward appetyte. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. xxxiii. 2 Vhom suld I warie bot my wicked weard, Vha span my thriftles thrauard fatall threed? 1795Macneill Will & Jean 1, Such was Jean when Will first, mawing, Spied her on a thrawart beast. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xiii, Mony a thrawart job I hae had wi' her first and last. 1901J. Molleson Poems 48 The maister ne'er gae them a thrawart look.
2. dial. Twisted, crooked, wry, ‘thrawn’.
1814W. Nicholson Poems 118 Yon todlin' burn.. Still presses owre ilk thrawart turn. 1827J. Watt Poems 15 (E.D.D.) Man's life's..A chain o' mony thrawart links. 1894A. Reid Sangs Heatherland 72 His nosie..Sae hookit, and thrawart.
Hence ˈthrawartly adv. Sc., frowardly, perversely. So ˈthrawart-like adv.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. xxv. (S.T.S.) I. 232 Þe armye consauit na litill Ire and Indignatioun in þare myndis..and did all thingis sa thrawartlie..that [etc.]. 1768Ross Helenore i. 30 Very thrawart like, I yeed in by. |