threap

Meanings

Noun

• An altercation, quarrel, argument.
• An accusation or serious charge.
• Stubborn insistence.
• A superstition or freet.

Verb

• To contradict.
• To denounce.
• To cry out; complain; contend.
• To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke
• To affirm; to express with conviction.
• To cozen or cheat.
• To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on).
• To beat or thrash.

Origin

• From Middle English threp, from the verb (see below).
• Alternative etymology derives Middle English threp, from Old English *þrēap (attested only as Old English þrēap, in the sense of "troop, band"), ultimately from the same Germanic origin below.
• From Middle English threpen, from Old English þrēapian, from Proto-West Germanic *þraupōn, from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną, from Proto-Germanic *þrawō, from Proto-Germanic *þrawjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *trōw-. Akin to Old English þrēagan, þrēa, þrōwian. More at throe.