threep
Britishverb
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And Angus he was fair mad, I can tell ye, and he said to Wilson, 'Thoo stammerin' and yammerin' taistrel, thoo; I'll pluck a lock of thy threep.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
Some threep that he's worn thae eedentical pair the last twenty year, an' a mind masel' him getting' a tear ahint, when he was crossin' oor palin', an the mend's still veesible.
From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
I mind the day when I followed Mr Gladstone's Home Rule policy, and used to threep about the noble, generous, warm-hearted sister nation held in a foreign bondage.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
He will keep up his threep like a gamecock till he dies with it in his last crow.
From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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