threap
threap (THREEP) - (N. Eng. & Scot.) v., to scold, contradict, rebuke, bicker. n., an argument, quarrel; stubborn insistence.
A broad-spectrum word of contention. Surviving now only in the north, this was mainline Middle English in the form threpen, to scold, from Old English þrēapian, to reprove/punish/blame, from a Proto-Germanic root, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trōw-, to beat/wound/kill/torment.
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A broad-spectrum word of contention. Surviving now only in the north, this was mainline Middle English in the form threpen, to scold, from Old English þrēapian, to reprove/punish/blame, from a Proto-Germanic root, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trōw-, to beat/wound/kill/torment.
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