Threep
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of threap. alt-of, alternative
Verb
- 1 Alternative form of threap. alt-of, alternative
"It seems that about this very time Alison was telling the same tale to poor Ailie. She cast up to her every idle gossip she could think of. 'It's Joan o' the Croft,' was aye her owercome, and she would threep that they were to be cried in kirk on the first Sabbath of May."
Example
More examples"It seems that about this very time Alison was telling the same tale to poor Ailie. She cast up to her every idle gossip she could think of. 'It's Joan o' the Croft,' was aye her owercome, and she would threep that they were to be cried in kirk on the first Sabbath of May."
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