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thropple

Syllables: throp·pleUK/ˈθɹɒp(ə)l/

thropple is the alternative spelling of thrapple.

Meaning of thrapple

Noun

thrapple (plural thrapples)

  1. (Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.
    • A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles.[1600, Al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi [i.e., Leo Africanus], “A Briefe Relation Concerning the Dominions, Reuenues, Forces, and Maner of Gouernment of Sundry the Greatest Princes either...

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Forms of thropple

Noun
pluralthropples
Verb
third-person singular presentthropples
present participlethroppling
past participlethroppled
pastthroppled

Origin of thropple

See thrapple.

Words that rhyme with thropple

Questions about thropple

What is thropple the alternative spelling of?
Thropple is the alternative spelling of thrapple.
How do you pronounce thropple?
Thropple is pronounced /ˈθɹɒp(ə)l/ (UK).

Words near thropple in the dictionary

  1. Throops
  2. throphoblast
  3. throphozoite
  4. throphozoites
  5. thropomyosin
  6. thropple
  7. throppled
  8. thropples
  9. throppling
  10. Thropton
  11. Throsby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thropple (page history and authors); thrapple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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