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threap

[ threep ]

noun

  1. an argument; quarrel.
  2. a hostile charge; accusation.


verb (used with object)

  1. to rebuke; scold.

verb (used without object)

  1. to argue; bicker.

threap

/ θriːp /

verb

  1. to scold
  2. to contradict
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈthreaper, noun
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Other Words From

  • threaper noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of threap1

before 900; (v.) Middle English threpen, Old English thrēapian to blame; (noun) Middle English threp ( e ), derivative of the v.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of threap1

Old English thrēapian to blame; related to Old Frisian thrūwa, Old High German threwen, Old Norse threa
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Example Sentences

Some herds, weel learn’d upo’ the beuk, Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk; For ’twas the auld moon turned a neuk, An’ out o’ sight, An’ backlins-comin’, to the leuk, She grew mair bright.

I weant say that I's fain to see you, but I've no call to threap wi' waller-lads.

He seemed to feel a strength that would have snapped them like pack threap.

Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can; And oft, to live a quiet life, I am forced to yield, though I'm good-man; It's not for a man with a woman to threap, Unless he first gave o'er the plea: As we began we now will leave, And I'll take mine old cloak about me.

Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o' the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better.

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