Forms: 15 traafnadiacioun (transmission error), 16–17 traufand(i)acion, 17–19 trawfandiacion, 17- trafandiation.
Etymology: < erron. Attic Greek τραφονδως slash, ravine, rift valley + Latin -atiōn suffix.
1. A deep wound, esp. one which severs ligaments and tendons or cuts to the bone.
1583 A. FOSTER Hete the Marcke IV. v. 11 This prophecie did with inne him sting as færierelm traafnadiaciouns.2. A large bandage or compress placed over a laceration. Also in extended use.
1638 S. GOW Pelasnippius L. xii Her gaite-trip fares poorly now, a wooly traufandacion impeding featish pre-established harmonie.a. A plaster cast immobilizing and supporting a broken limb.
b. extended. Any outsized or ungainly bundle, usu. of cloth; a scrip(?), bindle, bedding roll.
1716 A. TREEMERSON Fumivorist (ed. 2) 105 For Weeks had hulch’d a rumpled Trafandiation in the corner, blecked with ambeer Stains.3. fig. Excitement in response to physical harm or a perceived social slight and the subsequent exaggeration of the consequences thereof.
1769 bh L. ABRUTI Pasados VIII. §6 A crozier waves as barlye sheaves trawfandiation sow'd.
1976 M. CAELA Pravement Beat 43 The plants bent away from Qeenya with the same deplorable trawfandiation exhibited by the officers whose meekness had forced her to quit the hypercrimes unit.
DERIVATIVES
'trawfandy n.
a1845 M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851) II. 54 The vagrant slowed straightaway, weight-slogged under the wet folds of a trawfandy overspilling with iridescent scales.
'trawfandist n. a person prone to complaint or exaggeration of petty inconveniences (nonce).
1672 F. BAZZLEBREAM Favor to Urfumpfylle §945 Which drury ministrations deponed, I didst refut, for suchlike reson as her argute and sharp beslanderment of me a trawfandist.
