tharf

Meaning

Adjective

• Unleavened.
• Stiff, unsocial, rough in manner.

Origin

• From Middle English therf, from Old English þeorf ("unleavened, fresh, skim"), from Proto-Germanic *þerbaz ("unleavened, simple"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terbh-, *(s)trebh-. Cognate with German derb ("rough, coarse, rude"), Old Frisian therve, Middle Dutch derf, Middle High German derp, Icelandic þjarfur ("unleavened").