Sekirov Dictionary

threap

/θɹiːp/

verb 7
noun 4
forms 4

verb7

(Scotland) To cry out; complain; contend.
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(Scotland) To affirm; to express with conviction.
- Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him — 1761
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(Scotland) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
- He threaped me down that it was so.
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(Scotland) To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
- It's not for a man with a woman to threap. — 1529
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(Scotland) To contradict.
- I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not. — 1778
(Scotland) To denounce.
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(Scotland) To cozen or cheat.
- Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions. — 1677

noun4

(Scotland) An altercation, quarrel, argument.
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(Scotland) An accusation or serious charge.
- And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise. — 1738
(Scotland) Stubborn insistence.
(Scotland) A superstition or freet.

forms

threaped · threapt · threaping · threaps

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