threep

English

Noun

threep (plural threeps)

  1. Alternative form of threap

Verb

threep

  1. Alternative form of threap
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      It seems that about this very time Alison was telling the same tale to poor Ailie. She cast up to her every idle gossip she could think of. 'It's Joan o' the Croft,' was aye her owercome, and she would threep that they were to be cried in kirk on the first Sabbath of May.
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