thrawardadj.
/ˈθrɔːwəd/, U.S. /ˈθrɔwərd/, Scottish English /ˈθrɔwərd/ Scottish.
1. Disposed to turn aside from the proper way; froward, refractory, perverse, adverse. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [adjective] > affected by
forraughtc1175
perverteda1382
arsewardc1386
perversec1425
perversionatec1475
perversed1488
perverta1500
thraward?a1513
seduced1584
wronged1619
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective]
arvethc885
uneathOE
arvethlichc1000
evilc1175
hardc1175
deara1225
derfa1225
illc1330
wickeda1375
uneasy1398
difficul?a1450
difficile?1473
difficulta1527
unready1535
craggy1582
spiny1604
tough1619
uphill1622
shrewda1626
spinousa1638
scabrous1646
spinose1660
rugged1663
cranka1745
tight1764
thraward1818
nasty1828
upstream1847
awkward1860
pricklyc1862
bristling1871
sticky1871
rocky1873
dodgy1898
challengeful1927
solid1943
ball-busting1944
challenging1975
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 203 In sic is sett thy thraward [a1586 fraward] appetyte.
1568 R. Henryson in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 232 His exhorbitant and thrawart [?a1500 frawart] pleid.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets xxxiii. 2 Vhom suld I warie bot my wicked weard, Vha span my thriftles thrauard fatall threed?
?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 8 Sic was Jean, when Will first mawing, Spied her on a thraward beast.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 21 Mony a thrawart job I hae had wi' her first and last.
1901 J. Molleson Poems 48 The maister ne'er gae them a thrawart look.
2. dialect. Twisted, crooked, wry, ‘thrawn’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > crooked
wough862
crumba1100
wrongc1175
crooked?c1225
crochedc1300
forcrookedc1305
miscrookeda1398
crumpleda1400
kirkeda1425
camshoch1513
crooken1589
awry1728
thraward1814
ajee1816
ahoo1828
crinkly-crankly1850
unstraight1860
cockeye1891
cockeyed1899
crookedy1907
1814 W. Nicholson Poems 118 Yon todlin' burn.. Still presses owre ilk thrawart turn.
1827 J. Watt Poems 15 (E.D.D.) Man's life's..A chain o' mony thrawart links.
1894 A. Reid Sangs Heatherland 72 His nosie..Sae hookit, and thrawart.
Derivatives
ˈthrawartly adv. Scottish frowardly, perversely.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > perversely
witherc1200
contrariouslyc1380
waywardly1395
frowardlya1400
overthwartlya1425
wrawlyc1440
protervely1447
perverselya1513
thrawnlya1522
perversedlya1525
thrawartly1533
thwartly1558
backwardlya1586
unreclaimablya1616
peevishlya1680
untowardly1682
bloody-mindedly1716
wrong-headedly1737
thrawart-like1768
cross-grained1825
pigheadedly1836
cussedly1868
contrariwise1873
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xxv. 232 Þe armye consauit na litill Ire and Indignatioun in þare myndis..and did all thingis sa thrawartlie..that [etc.].
ˈthrawart-like adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adverb] > perversely
witherc1200
contrariouslyc1380
waywardly1395
frowardlya1400
overthwartlya1425
wrawlyc1440
protervely1447
perverselya1513
thrawnlya1522
perversedlya1525
thrawartly1533
thwartly1558
backwardlya1586
unreclaimablya1616
peevishlya1680
untowardly1682
bloody-mindedly1716
wrong-headedly1737
thrawart-like1768
cross-grained1825
pigheadedly1836
cussedly1868
contrariwise1873
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 30 Very thrawart like, I yeed in by.
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