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thrapple - What does it mean?

Definition of 'thrapple'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Scotland|northern England) The throat, especially the windpipe or gullet.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 42:
  • *:And she said it, she felt like a hen with a stone in its thrapple […].
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