threpe

Verb

threap (third-person singular simple present threaps, present participle threaping, simple past and past participle threaped or threapt)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To contradict.
   • I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.1778, Nicholas Wilkinson, The Trial at Large of Nicholas Wilkinson
2. (Scotland) To denounce.
   • O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 32
3. (Scotland) To cry out; complain; contend.
4. (Scotland) To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
   • It's not for a man with a woman to threap.a. 1529, John Skelton, "The Old Cloak", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765
5. (Scotland) To affirm; to express with conviction.
   • Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises1664, John Fullartoun, The Turtle-Dove
6. (Scotland) To cozen or cheat.
   • Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra

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