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Windpipe vs Thrapple - What's the difference?

windpipe | thrapple |

As nouns the difference between windpipe and thrapple

is that windpipe is the trachea while thrapple is the throat, especially the windpipe or gullet.

windpipe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The trachea.
  • Any duct for air or other gas.
  • (rare) A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls.
  • (rare, British, slang) The anus.
  • See also

    * esophagus * gullet * weasand * throat

    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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