Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Twisted; wrenched; distorted; sprained: as, a thrawn stick; a thrawn foot.
- Cross-grained; perverse; contrary or contradictory.
Etymologies
- Scots, past participle of thraw, to twist, wrench, from Middle English thrauen, from Old English thrāwan; see throw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He shuffled a little faster -- still upon his knees -- his head still twisted over his shoulder 'thrawn' in terror of Sandie and the accusing corpse.”
“There is something "thrawn," as the Scotch say, about the story; there is often a touch of this sinister kind in the author's work.”
“There's also a word which the people who live here like to use about themselves - "thrawn".”
“thrawn', and that was why he had lain on his back yet with his face turned away from me.”
“I know that Luke and Leia are too old now for this much like they are now too old for the thrawn trilogy.”
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“Being a thrawn sort however, the first thing I'm going to do is re-articulate the model.”
“Tagged: bonnie burton · crafts · lists · mara jade · maya · sith · the old republic mmo · thrawn trilogy · visions”
“Better for you to keep the true believers thinking that independence is just around the next corner than to have their hopes dashed by the electorate's thrawn (or bored) reluctance to play along.”
“Mr Forbes and his allies are, to use a fine old Scots word, admirably thrawn.”
“If your answer is yes then I conclude that you are simply being thrawn.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thrawn’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 272 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 more...
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 557 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Annsley's list
churlish, bibulous, salt, salty, conjugal, fabulist, maw, primordial, chimera, emetic, surly, excrescence and 228 more...
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Turning and Twisting Tours
words in the nature of double spirals
swift, swerve, swirl, swivel, swarm, swag, swank, swoop, swinge, swarf, spire, esparto and 361 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for thrawn.
chained_bear Another usage on reester. Jan 30, 2010
garyth123 rls has a short story thrawn janet Dec 6, 2008
whichbe 1. Contrary or perverse; twisted or misshapen.
2. Difficult, awkward.
(Wiktionary) May 18, 2008
yarb It would be thrawn, as well, to query Cristiano Ronaldo while his goal hoard makes him so influential...
- Kevin McCarra in The Guardian, 15-4-08. Apr 15, 2008
chained_bear "'Geordie, put the tray down here, ye thrawn, ill-feckit gaberlunzie.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 12 Mar 20, 2008