thrapple

British  

/ ˈθræpəl /

noun

1. the throat or windpipe

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verb

1. to throttle

Etymology

Origin of thrapple

C18: a variant of earlier thropple, of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

But, luckily, he remembered the goose's thrapple, and he pulled it out of his pocket and whistled through it.

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Man, it seeps doon through your thrapple into your lungs, an' there's nae hoastin' o' it up.

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I knew it war not likely I shed ever be diskivered now, since my ole ’ooman hedn’t made her appearance sooner; an’ as to any boat stoppin’ for my hail, thet trick I hed tried till I war a’most broken-winded—leastwise I hed kep’ hollerin’ every hour day arter day till my thrapple war as sore as a blister.

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He desarve to hev it, or suthin’ else, round his thrapple ’stead o’ his leg.

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He sent word, ‘that if she offered to touch his corpse he would rive the thrapple oot o’ her—he would raither be streekit by Auld Clootie’s ain red-het hands.’—Yours, truly obliged, R. C.” This poor, vindictive, solitary, and powerful creature, was a philocalist: he had a singular love of flowers and of beautiful women.

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