threep
Britishverb
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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 Sir Hall Caine
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 John Buchan
He will keep up his threep like a gamecock till he dies with it in his last crow.
From Playing With Fire by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"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 Sir Hall Caine
"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 George MacDonald
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