threep
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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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
"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
I mind the day when I followed Mr Gladstone's Home Rule policy, and used to threep about the noble, generous, warm-hearted sister nation held in a foreign bondage.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
"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
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
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