threap

English

Alternative forms

• threpe

Etymology

From Middle English threp (“rebuke”, noun), from Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawēną (“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.

Noun

threap (plural threaps)

1. an altercation, quarrel, argument
2. an accusation or serious charge

Verb

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

1. to scold, rebuke
2. to argue, bicker
   • Percy's Reliques

     It's not for a man with a woman to threap.

Derived terms

• threaper

Anagrams

• tephra, teraph