thrapple

Meanings

Noun

• The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.

Verb

• To strangle, to throttle.

Origin

• The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul; further etymology Unknown, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (whence English throat-boll ), from Old English þrotbolla, from þrote + bolla (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-).
• The verb is derived from the noun.