threap

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /θɹiːp/

Noun

threap (plural threaps) (Scotland)

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

Verb

threap (threaps, present participle threaping; past and past participle threaped) (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
7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.

   He threaped me down that it was so.

8. To beat or thrash.
9. To insist on

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