twistical

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Tortuous; unfair; not quite moral. Used in New England.


He may be straight going, farzino, manwards; but in his declines with t'other sex, he is a leetle twistical, according to their tell. I wouldn't make a town talk of it.--D. Humphreys, The Yankee in England.

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