Meaning & use
Thropple
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A dialectal term, chiefly Scots and northern English, for the throat or windpipe.
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The old shepherd joked that the cold wind had gone straight down his thropple.
She grabbed the goose by its thropple to keep it still.
A note on using this word
A variant of 'thrapple,' still heard in Scots and northern English dialects.
Words with a similar meaning
throatgullet
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