Definitions For Threap

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Middle English threp, t=a rebuke, from the verb (see below). Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from (attested only as , 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, t=to scold, from , from , from , from , from . Akin to , þrēa, t=correction, punishment, þrōwian, t=to suffer. More at throe.

Verb

en , Scotland (transitive) To contradict To scold; rebuke To cry out; complain; contend To argue; bicker To call; name To cozen or cheat : (Halliwell) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction. : He threaped me down that it was so. To beat or thrash. : (Halliwell) To insist on