Sc. and n. dial. [app. shortened form of THRAWN.] Twisted, turned awry. Also in comb. = WRY-, as thraw-gabbit a., wry-mouthed, peevish; thraw-necked a., having the neck twisted.
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., I. 437. Thir megir bellis, Sum round, sum thraw.
18[?]. Joanna Baillie, Hooly & Fairly, i. My wife … ca’s me a niggardly thraw-gabbit carlie.
1884. Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Berna Boyle, xi. There was nothing in his offer the best gentleman in the land need have drawn a thraw mouth over.
1894. Lang, Poems, 41 (E.D.D.). Our present Duke’s nae thraw man.
1898. Ld. E. Hamilton, Mawkin, xx. 275. A pair of poor thraw-neckit corpses.
