Meanings
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1
verb
chiefly northern British or Scots: to scold, chide, argue with, or rebuke someone
The neighbors threaped one another over the boundary wall.
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2
verb
chiefly northern British or Scots: to maintain or insist on something obstinately despite contradiction
She threaped that no respectable family would behave in such a way.
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3
noun
dialectal: an argument, quarrel, accusation, or stubborn assertion
Their long threap about the inheritance ended only when the lawyer arrived.
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Etymology
From Middle English threpen and Old English threapian, 'reprove, rebuke, or punish,' related to Germanic words for torment or punishment. Northern English and Scots preserved senses of arguing, scolding, and insisting obstinately after the word became rare in standard English.