threap

== English == === Alternative forms === threep, threip, threpe, threeap, thrape, threp, traep, traip, trep, trape === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /θɹiːp/ Rhymes: -iːp === Etymology 1 === 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 ==== threap (plural threaps) (Scotland) An altercation, quarrel, argument. An accusation or serious charge. Stubborn insistence. A superstition or freet. === Etymology 2 === 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 ==== threap (third-person singular simple present threaps, present participle threaping, simple past and past participle threaped or threapt) (Scotland) (transitive) To contradict. To denounce. To cry out; complain; contend. To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke a. 1529, John Skelton, "The Old Cloak", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765 It's not for a man with a woman to threap. To affirm; to express with conviction. To cozen or cheat. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on). ===== Derived terms ===== threaper === Anagrams === Tharpe, hapter, pather, tephra, teraph, therap