threap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: threaps
form: threaping
form: threaped
form: threaped
form: threapt
form: threapt
form: threep
form: threip
form: threpe
form: threeap
form: thrape
form: threp
form: traep
form: traip
form: trep
form: trape
Etymology: From Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną (“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.
Senses: examples: text: I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.
ref: 1778, Nicholas Wilkinson, The Trial at Large of Nicholas Wilkinson:
glosses: To contradict.
examples: text: O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: To denounce.
glosses: To cry out; complain; contend.
examples: text: It's not for a man with a woman to threap.
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, "The Old Cloak", in Thomas Percy (editor), Percy's Relics, published 1765
glosses: To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
examples: text: Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises
ref: 1664, John Fullartoun, The Turtle-Dove:
text: 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
ref: 1761, John Willison, Sacramental meditations and advices, page 173:
text: It is useful sometimes to threap good upon people, providing it be done soberly, prudently, and not in a flattering way, speaking nothing but truth, and withal, doing is seasonably, when the doing thereof will not foster pride nor conceit in people, but will make way, and open a door for receiving the wholesome admonitions and profitable directionsl as the apsotle doth here threap good upon these Romans, to the end his freedom in speaking to them might be the better welcomed, and less exception might be made against it: And I myself am persuaded of you, &c.
ref: 1766, John Brown, An Exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, page 565:
text: While the young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle: Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart-strings dirle; And fouk wad threap, that she did green For what wad atar her skirle and skreigh some day.
ref: 1800, Allan Ramsay, The Poems of Allan Ramsay - Volume 1, page 262:
glosses: To affirm; to express with conviction.
examples: text: Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.
ref: 1677, Richard Gilpin, Daemonologia Sacra:
glosses: To cozen or cheat.
examples: text: He threaped me down that it was so.
text: I eat some of it so prepared in an English Man's House in this City, and who would threap me down, that it was Sampire, and so named in his Country of Lincolnshire.
ref: 1727, Caleb Threlkeld, Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum Alphabetice Dispositarum, page 110:
text: Thus the Power of Truth has so great Influence upon you, as to make you decline the Debate, and to yield the Argument to me, and yet your inveterate Prejudices still prevail, and have the Mastery over you, to threap what you cannot defend, but will have others do it for you, who are no way interested;
ref: 1733, George Logan, The Humble and Modest Inquiry Concerning the Right and Power of Electing and Calling Ministers to vacant Churches, Finished:
text: Some herds, weel learn'd upo' the beuk, / Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk;
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree:
glosses: To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
Derived terms: threaper