thrapple

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈθɹæp(ə)l/|/ˈθɹɒ-/    /ˈθɹæp(ə)l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe. Northern-England,Northern-Ireland,Scotland
    — A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles.
动词 v.
  1. To strangle, to throttle. Northern-England,Northern-Ireland,Scotland,dated,transitive
    — Then Mr. Weft began his tale, how he had been collared and well nigh thrappled in his ain shop; [...]

词形变化

thrapples plural thropple alternative thrapples present,singular,third-person thrappling participle,present thrappled participle,past thrappled past thropple alternative

词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul (“trachea, windpipe”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (“laryngeal prominence, Adam’s apple; larynx; epiglottis; animal’s esophagus or neck; flesh covering throat of a deer”) [and other forms] (whence English throat-boll (obsolete)), from Old English þrotbolla [and other forms], from þrote (“throat”) + bolla (“bowl”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul (“trachea, windpipe”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (“laryngeal prominence, Adam’s apple; larynx; epiglottis; animal’s esophagus or neck; flesh covering throat of a deer”) [and other forms] (whence English throat-boll (obsolete)), from Old English þrotbolla [and other forms], from þrote (“throat”) + bolla (“bowl”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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