wraw

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Middle English

FWOTD – 15 September 2019

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Etymology

From Old English *wrāh, from Proto-Germanic *wraihaz (“crooked”). Compare Swedish dialect vrå (“wilful, disobedient”), from Proto-Germanic *wranhō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wrau̯(x)/, /wrɔu̯(x)/

Adjective

wraw (plural and weak singular wrawe)

  1. easily angered; in a foul mood
  2. angry; vexed; wrathful
    • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 43–44:
      And that is whan men pleyen with a ſtraw / And with this ſpeche the Cook wax wrooth and wraw
      And that's when men play with a straw." / And after that speech the Cook became furious and angry,

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