THREAP

Etymology 1

Noun

threap (plural threaps) (Scotland)

an altercation, quarrel, argument

an accusation or serious charge

stubborn insistence

a superstition or freet

Etymology 2

Verb

threap (third-person singular simple present threaps, present participle threaping, simple past and past participle threapt or threaped) (Scotland)

(transitive) To contradict

To scold; rebuke

To cry out; complain; contend

To argue; bicker

To call; name

To cozen or cheat

To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.

To beat or thrash.

To insist on

Anagrams

• Tharpe, pather, tephra, teraph

Source: Wiktionary

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Threap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping.] Etym: [AS. to reprove.] [Written also threpe, and threip.]

1. To call; to name. [Obs.]

2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

3. To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Threap, v. i.

Definition: To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's Reliques.

Threap, n.

Definition: An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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