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threap¹

  • /θɹiːp/

Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

From Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), from the verb (see below).

Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (“contention, strife”) (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.

noun threaps · threep · threip · threpe · threeap · thrape

  1. Scotland An altercation, quarrel, argument.
  2. Scotland An accusation or serious charge. And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise.
  3. Scotland Stubborn insistence.
  4. Scotland A superstition or freet. Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.

threap²

  • /θɹiːp/

Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe.

verb threaps · threaping · threaped · threapt

  1. Scotland, transitive To contradict. I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.
  2. Scotland To denounce. O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at
  3. Scotland To cry out; complain; contend.
  4. Scotland To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke It's not for a man with a woman to threap.
  5. Scotland To affirm; to express with conviction. Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises
  6. Scotland To cozen or cheat. Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.
  7. Scotland To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on). He threaped me down that it was so.

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@misc{threap_2026,
  title = {threap},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/threap},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}