Thraw

Word THRAW
Character 5
Hyphenation thraw
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According to some foolish people, yanno who you are who said it😉 Thrawed is a fucked up way of saying 'fraud'. Urban Dictionary

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The word "thraw" in example sentences

That corpses MIGHT begin to "thraw," if carelessly watched, was a prevalent superstition. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

One Scotchman was claiming that the peasantry of Scotland pronounced it three, his adversaries claimed that they didn't -- that they pronounced it 'thraw'. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

And, then to compound things, we have this vote where most of the Democrats running for president ended up looking like they were in thraw to their netroot fanatics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I doubt not a justice-loving public will have remarked, ere this, that I have thus far shown a criminal remissness in pursuing, catching, and bringing to condign punishment the would-be assassin of Mr. Robert Moore: here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance, at once decorous and exciting: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the 'dead-thraw.' ❋ Unknown (2004)

“And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?” said the old dame, scoffingly. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Ingoldsby, her cousin-german by the mother's side; but the Baron was too far gone in the dead-thraw to recognize either. ❋ Various (N/A)

But I'm not the woman to see ye disappointed, and I think if ye'll try me, I'll thraw ye myself. ' ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The night afore ye cam 'she yoked himsel' on his jyling the lassie, though she's the last that wad thraw him. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that “the deil tinkles at the lykewake” of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. ❋ Unknown (1917)

‘Oh, but ye maun come hame, sir! ye maun come hame! we have sent for the Sheriff, and we’ll set a watch here á night, in case the gipsies return; but you—ye maun come hame, sir, ——for my lady’s in the dead-thraw. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words ‘in the dead-thraw! ❋ Unknown (1917)

‘And wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw? ❋ Unknown (1917)

To become a cat or a crow the same verse was used with an alteration of the second line so as to force a rhyme; instead of 'meikle caire', the words were 'a blak shot 'for a cat, and 'a blak thraw' for a crow or craw. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

From a cat or a crow, the words were 'Cat, cat, God send thee a blak shott' or 'Craw, craw, God send thee a blak thraw', with the last two lines as before. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

Devill, thy maister, quhom thow termes Christsonday, and supponis to be ane engell, and Goddis godsone, albeit he hes a thraw by God, and swyis [sways] to the Quene of Elphen, is rasit be the speaking of the word _Benedicite_ .... ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

Thou confesses that the devil thy master, whom thou terms Christsunday, and supposes to be an angel and God's godson — albeit he has a thraw by God, and sways to the Quene of Elphin — is raised by the speaking of the word ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

But I shall be in a woman's likeness even now ', with the same variation of 'a black shot' or 'a black thraw 'for a cat or a crow. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

Well, 'tis a funny picksher you makes, an 'if tweern't murder an' hell-fire to do it, blamed if I wouldn't thraw 'e out the ship. ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)

Nae mair I'll range by Coquet-side and thraw the gleesome line; ❋ Unknown (1908)

Because the [demolition] squad didn't [arrive] and [you said it] would your a thrawed ❋ HarryLover12345 (2017)

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