Definitions for thrawn

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Spelling: [thrawn, thrahn]
IPA: /θrɔn, θrɑn/

Thrawn is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in thrawn (ahnrtw).

Definitions for thrawn

adjective

  1. twisted; crooked; distorted.
  2. contrary; peevish; perverse.
  3. unpleasant; sullen.

Origin of thrawn

1400-50; late Middle English (north and Scots), variant of thrown; see thraw

Examples for thrawn

What he had to say was of vast importance, and thrawn Island shared in his achievement.

This is not quite true: thrawn Janet was an earlier effort; and if there the problem is persistent, the woman is real.

Three miles from where thrawn Island lay, there were soundings of twenty-eight thousand feet and upward.

They were the windows of the thrawn Island satellite-tracking installation.

The bolide was not white-hot, then, as when it passed over thrawn Island.

There was a mention of thrawn Island as being on the very edge of the Deep.

His neck, as we say in Scotland, was 'thrawn', and that was why he had lain on his back yet with his face turned away from me.

"Morton's just been talking to me from thrawn Island," he said abruptly.

And her ye telled that ye couldna bide hair that wadna keep smooth, but was aye a'kinked and thrawn into devalls and curliewigs.

They dug him up, and carried the poor "thrawn" frame to where it could be sold.

Word Value for thrawn
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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