Talk:threap

The meaning here is too limited. Also spelled threpe.

"Wherto shuld I threpe? with my staf can I lepe."

(a) To scold, chide, rebuke; also, threaten, menace ~ with, remonstrate with; (b) to argue, quarrel, debate; (c) to compete, contend; also, fight, do battle; also fig.; also, struggle ~ together; ppl. threaped, determined, stalwart; (d) of thunder, rain, the winds: to rage; (e) to assert (that sth. is so), maintain despite opposition, insist; &mdash; used of contrary-to-fact assertions; ~ of, jeer at the gullibility of (people that they had done sth.); ~ on (upon), assert falsely to (sb. that sth. is so), deceive, fool; (f) ~ away, to hurry or rush away. AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 14:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)


 * As long as those senses are Modern English senses, and not Middle or Old English. The quote above looks more like Middle English than Modern English or EME. Leasnam 14:30, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
Rfv-sense: To beat or thrash. Notusbutthem (talk) 16:05, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * It seems likely that our entry has more senses than citations would support... - -sche (discuss) 02:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It seems like this is just a pronunciation (especially Scotland) spelling for thrape (which I’m amazed we don’t already have an entry for, it’s widely used in the Black Country, Northern England, Scotland and apparently even in East Wales.). Suzie Dent of Countdown fame even suggests thrape comes from threap here . Annoyingly though, although I can find many examples of ‘thrape’ meaning ‘hit’ and some instances of ‘thrape’ meaning ‘argue’ on GoogleBooks, I can only find instances where threap means ‘argue’ rather than ‘hit’. Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:44, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Reminds me of a word I was dealing with a while ago (I think it was gorm/gaum and derivatives thereof like gormy) where some meanings were only attested in some spellings. Annoying, indeed. - -sche (discuss) 03:05, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 18:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)