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   thew

   /θjuː/

   noun

   • 1. muscular strength: literary "brains and brawn, thought and thew"
   • ▪ muscles and tendons perceived as generating strength: literary "she touched his magnificent thews"

   Word Origin Old Englishthēaw ‘usage, custom’, (plural) ‘manner of behaving’, of unknown origin. The sense ‘good bodily proportions, muscular development’ arose in Middle English.

   Derivatives

   • 1. thewed adjective
   • 2. thewy adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

   • W

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