Thrawn (adj) (Scots)
thr-awn
Twisted or crooked/ Perverse or ill tempered.
Late Middle English Scots form of thrown (see throw), in the obsolete sense ‘twisted, wrung’.
Example sentences
“I think we’ve tolerated enough of his thrawn behaviour.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
