threep
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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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
"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
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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
They sha' na flout and fleer, the feckless queans, the hissies wha'll threep to stan' i' your auld shoon ae day!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
"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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