threpe
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), deverbal of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þrawēną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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. See also threap.
Verb
threpe (third-person singular simple present threpes, present participle threping, simple past and past participle threped)