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- alternativeAlternative form of threap.
It seems that about this very time Alison was telling the same tale to poor Ailie. She cast up to her every idle gossip she could think of. 'It's Joan o' the Croft,' was aye her owercome, and she would threep that they were to be cried in kirk on the first Sabbath of May.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
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threep. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threep
“threep.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threep. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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