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Meaning of ‘threap’
4 definitions found.
To call; to name. [Obs.]
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.
To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's Reliques. An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done. Carlyle.
Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University
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