thrawn
/θrɔːn
/adjective Scottish
1Twisted; crooked: a slightly thrawn neck
2Perverse; ill-tempered: mother’s looking a bit thrawn this morning...
- Life for her and her siblings on Blawearie farm is conditioned by the weather and the mood of her thrawn, ill-tempered father, John.
- Being thrawn, I refused to cut it to ‘a commercial length’ or compromise in any way.
- Although the Holland job must be tempting, it is probably too easy an option for his thrawn nature.
Origin
Late Middle English: Scots form of thrown (see throw), in the obsolete sense 'twisted, wrung'.
Rhymes
- artificialism
- artificiality
- artificialize
- artificialized
- artificial kidney
- artificial language
- artificial life
- artificial line
- artificial lung
- artificially
- artificial magnet
- artificial manure
- artificial memory
- artificialness
- artificial porcelain
- artificial reality
- artificial respiration
- artificial rubber
- artificial selection
- artificial silk
- artificial sunlight
- artificial surface
- artificial sweetener
- artificial system
- artificial turf