Category:Threap

Threap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Threaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Threaping.] Etym: [as. to reprove.] [written also threpe, and threip.]

1. To call; to name. [obs.]

2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to Contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he Threaped me down that it was so. [prov. Eng. & scot.] Burns.

3. To beat, or thrash. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. To cozen, or cheat. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Threap Threap, v. i.

Defn: to contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [prov. Eng. & Scot.] It's not for a man with a woman to threap. Percy's reliques.

Threap Threap, n.

Defn: an obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious Affirmation. [prov. Eng. & scot.] He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year Was done. Carlyle.