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threep

British  
/ θriːp /

verb

  1. a variant spelling of threap

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Some threep that he's worn thae eedentical pair the last twenty year, an' a mind masel' him getting' a tear ahint, when he was crossin' oor palin', an the mend's still veesible.

From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

"Mess, lads, but he'd be a reet good Parli'ment man to threep about the nation."

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

"Alloo me to tell ye, sir, ye're the first 'at ever daured threep my hoose was no a dacent ane."

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

And Angus he was fair mad, I can tell ye, and he said to Wilson, 'Thoo stammerin' and yammerin' taistrel, thoo; I'll pluck a lock of thy threep.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

He will keep up his threep like a gamecock till he dies with it in his last crow.

From Playing With Fire by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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