wraw
Middle English
FWOTD – 15 September 2019
Alternative forms
- wrow, wrah, wraȝ, wroȝ, wragh, wrogh, wrau
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)
- easily angered; in a foul mood
- 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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Derived terms
- wrawen
- wrawnesse
References
- “wrau, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-01.
- wraw in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913