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threap.

An altercation, quarrel, argument.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/θɹiːp/
  1. An altercation, quarrel, argument.

    Scotland
  2. An accusation or serious charge.

    Scotland
  3. Stubborn insistence.

    Scotland
  4. A superstition or freet.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/θɹiːp/
  1. To contradict.

    Scotland · transitive
  2. To denounce.

    Scotland
  3. To cry out; complain; contend.

    Scotland
  4. To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke

    Scotland
  5. To affirm; to express with conviction.

    Scotland
  6. To cozen or cheat.

    Scotland
  7. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).

    Scotland
    He threaped me down that it was so.
Where this word comes from

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.

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