What does "threap" mean?
An altercation, quarrel, argument.
Threap
/θɹiːp/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: An altercation, quarrel, argument.
- Grammar: threap is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: criticize, dispute.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An altercation, quarrel, argument. Scotland
- 2 An accusation or serious charge. Scotland
"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 Stubborn insistence. Scotland
- 4 A superstition or freet. Scotland
"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."
Verb
- 1 To contradict. Scotland, transitive
"I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not."
- 2 To denounce. Scotland
"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 his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer."
- 3 To cry out; complain; contend. Scotland
- 4 To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke Scotland
"It's not for a man with a woman to threap."
- 5 To affirm; to express with conviction. Scotland
"Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises"
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- 6 To cozen or cheat. Scotland
"Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions."
- 7 To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on). Scotland
"He threaped me down that it was so."
Synonyms
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"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "threap"?
Common synonyms include: criticize, dispute.
How do you use "threap" in a sentence?
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.
How do you pronounce "threap"?
Pronounced /θɹiːp/.
Etymology
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.
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.