Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To contradict.
- To aver or affirm with pertinacious repetition; continue to assert with contrary obstinacy, as in reply to persistent denial: as, to threap a thing down one's throat.
- To insist on.
- To cry out; complain; contend; maintain.
- To call; term.
- To indulge in mutual recrimination or contradiction; contend; quarrel; bandy words; dispute.
- To fight; battle.
- n. Contest; attack.
- n. Contradiction.
- n. A vehement or pertinacious affirmation; an obstinate decision or determination.
- n. A superstitious idea or notion; a freet.
Wiktionary
- n. an altercation, quarrel, argument
- n. an accusation or serious charge
- v. to scold, rebuke
- v. to argue, bicker
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To call; to name.
- v. Prov. Eng. & Scot. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide.
- v. Prov. Eng. To beat, or thrash.
- v. Prov. Eng. To cozen, or cheat.
- v. Prov. Eng. & Scot. To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.
- n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
Etymologies
- Middle English threp ("a rebuke"), deverbal of Middle English threpen ("to scold"), from Old English þrēapian ("to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame"), from Proto-Germanic *þraupōnan (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawēnan (“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. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Indeed, yell no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o the Auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the Lairds room, but only that wanchancy creature, the Major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the Lairds whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the Laird himsell, if no better.”
“He seemed to feel a strength that would have snapped them like pack threap.”
The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast
“Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o 'the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird's room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird's whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better.”
“Indeed, ye’ll no hinder some to threap that it was nane o’ the auld Enemy that Dougal and my gudesire saw in the laird’s room, but only that wanchancy creature, the major, capering on the coffin; and that, as to the blawing on the laird’s whistle that was heard after he was dead, the filthy brute could do that as weel as the laird himsell, if no better.”
“The reply was, “Yo’d better not; he’d threap yo’ down th’ loan.”
“I weant say that I's fain to see you, but I've no call to threap wi 'waller-lads.”
“The reply was, "Yo'd better not; he'd threap yo 'down th' loan.”
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AnWulf Also spelled threpe.
As a noun:
(a) Contention, strife; battle; also, a battle, contest;
without ~, without argument; without opposition;
(b) insistence, importunity; Oct 20, 2011