threapenv.
Obsolete exc. dialect.† 1. To threaten (transitive and intransitive). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
threata1000
threaten1297
threapen1340
menacea1400
shorec1475
interminatea1631
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against
threata1000
threatenc1290
menacec1384
menacea1400
menacec1400
shorec1475
boasta1522
worrya1556
threapen1559
bravea1619
bethreatened1635
braveer1652
bay1796
comminate1801
bravo1831
mau-mau1970
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 84 Naȝt ne habbeþ more of myȝte aye uirtues kueade mysfalles and zorȝes ne al þet fortune may þreapny and do: more þanne þer byeþ dropen of rayn ine þe ze.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 97.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 162 Hardyesse uor to þolie alle þe kueadnesse þet þe wordle may þreapni.
1559 W. Barker Nobylyte Women (1904) 128 Yf they be threpned [It. se sono minacciate] they langwyshe, yf they be cheryshed they be prowde.
2. To blame, rebuke, chide, reprove: = threap v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ To Threap or Threapen, vox agro Linc. usitatissima, ab AS. Ðreapian, Redarguere, vel Ðrafian, Urgere.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Threap, Threapen, to blame, rebuke, reprove, chide.
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. (E. Yorks.) Threapen, to reprove, rebuke, chide.
Derivatives
ˈthreapening n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]
telingeOE
chastiment?c1225
snapinga1300
snibbinga1300
reproving?1316
undernimminga1325
correctiona1340
threapening1340
admonishingc1350
reproofa1375
scourgingc1374
correptionc1380
repreyningc1390
reprehensiona1413
undertakingc1430
rebuke?a1439
admonition1440
correptingc1449
rebut?c1450
reprehendingc1450
redargution1483
reproval1493
increpation1502
prisec1540
tasking1543
check1588
improof1590
snubbing1600
threap1636
compellation1656
reprovement1675
reprimanding1698
rowing1812
lecturing1861
carpeting1888
eldering1912
woodshedding1940
stick1956
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 65 vij. oþre boȝes. Huer-of þe uerste is strif, þe oþer chidinge, þe þridde missigginge, þe uerþe godelinge, þe uifte atwytinge, þe zixte þreapninge, þe zeuende vnonynge arere.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 Efterward zuo comeþ þe þreapnynges and beginneþ þe medles and þe werres.
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