Threpe vs Threap - What's the difference?
threpe | threap | Alternative forms |
to scold, rebuke
to argue, bicker
* Percy's Reliques
to call, to name
to cozen or cheat
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction.
To beat or thrash.
Threpe is an alternative form of threap.
As verbs the difference between threpe and threap
is that threpe is (obsolete) to threap while threap is to scold, rebuke.As a noun threap is
an altercation, quarrel, argument.threap
English
Alternative forms
* threip * threpeVerb
(en verb)- It's not for a man with a woman to threap .
- (Halliwell)
- He threaped me down that it was so.
- (Robert Burns)
- (Halliwell)
