different between threaper vs threap

English

Alternative forms

• threep, threip, threpe, threeap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?p/

Etymology 1

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

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

Noun

threap (plural threaps) (Scotland)

1. an altercation, quarrel, argument
2. an accusation or serious charge
3. stubborn insistence
4. a superstition or freet

Etymology 2

From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þr?apian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-Germanic *þraup?n? (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þraw? (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjan? (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr?w- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þr?agan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þr?a (“correction, punishment”), þr?wian (“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)

1. (transitive) To contradict
2. To scold; rebuke
3. To cry out; complain; contend
4. To argue; bicker
   • 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.

5. To call; name
6. To cozen or cheat

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7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.

   He threaped me down that it was so.
8. To beat or thrash.

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9. To insist on

Derived terms

• threaper

Anagrams

• Tharpe, hapter, pather, tephra, teraph