a. Obs. dial. Also 7 trefe. [Etymology unknown.] Peevish, bad-tempered.
1601. Dent, Pathw. Heaven, 389. Though her yoong suckling crie all night, and be exceeding treafe and waiward.
1627. J. Carter, Plain Expos., 16. They are pronounced blessed, not who are treafe, and teachie, irefull and snappish,… but the meeke who … submit themselues vnder the mightie hand of God.
1659. Gauden, Slight Healers (1660), 34. To quiet the Trefe and Wayward people.
1691. Ray, S. & E. C. Words (E.D.S.), Treaf, peevish, froward, pettish, very apt to be angry. Hence 1787 in Grose, Provinc. Gloss.
