† treafadj.
Obsolete dialect.
Peevish, bad-tempered.
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1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 425 Though her young suckling cry all night, & be exceeding treafe and weiward.
1627 J. Carter Plaine Expos. Serm. in Mount 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.
1660 J. Gauden Κακουργοι 34 To quiet the Trefe and Wayward people.
1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words (E.D.S.) Treaf, peevish, froward, pettish, very apt to be angry.
Hence 1787 in F. Grose Provinc. Gloss.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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