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Gullet vs Thrapple - What's the difference?

gullet | thrapple |

As nouns the difference between gullet and thrapple

is that gullet is the throat or esophagus while thrapple is (scotland|northern england) the throat, especially the windpipe or gullet.

gullet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The throat or esophagus.
  • (cytology) The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
  • The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
  • A channel for water.
  • A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.

    • Synonyms

    * (throat or esophagus) gorge * (cytopharynx) cytopharynx

    See also

    * craw * crop * esophagus * throat * trachea * windpipe ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

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    thrapple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) The throat, especially the windpipe or gullet.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 42:
  • *:And she said it, she felt like a hen with a stone in its thrapple […].
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