threpe

Middle English threp (“a rebuke”), deverbal of Middle English threpen (“to scold”), from Old English þrēapian (“to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame”), from Proto-Germanic *þraupōną (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawēną (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan (“to rebuke, punish, chastise”), þrēa (“correction, punishment”), þrōwian (“to suffer”). More at throe. See also threap.

threpe (third-person singular simple present threpes, present participle threping, simple past and past participle threped)

1. (obsolete) to threap
2. (archaic) to call, to term
3. (archaic) to insist

• threap

• Pether, herpet-, prethe