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▪ I. thrip, n. slang.|θrɪp|
Also 7 threpps, 8 threps.
Short for threepence.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Threpps, Three-pence. 1834W. G. Simms Guy Rivers II. 108 Whom he rewarded with a thrip (the smallest silver coin known in the southern currency—the five cent issue excepted). 1887J. C. Harris Free Joe, etc. (1888) 60 A little boy who wanted to buy a thrip's worth of candy.
▪ II. thrip, v. dial.|θrɪp|
[app. echoic: cf. flip v.]
†1. intr. To make a noise with thumb and finger which resembles the whispering of ‘thrip’ or ‘flip’; trans. to snap (the fingers). Obs.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 33 He with clapping his handes and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike. Ibid. 34 A fifth..thript with his finger and his thumbe.
2. trans. To jerk with a slight movement.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 125 A Watch or a Jack, by being only wown up without thripping the balance or flyer. 1901‘Zack’ T. Dunstable Weir 190 Her zot under the big fig tree, thripping her lace-bobbins in and out.
†3. [Prob. the same word.] To spin. Obs. dial. Hence † ˈthripping vbl. n.
a1652Brome Eng. Moor iii. i, Q. But where about in Norfolk wert thou bred? P. At Thripperstown, Sir, near the City of Norwich. Q. Where they live much by spinning with the Rocks? P. Thripping they call it, Sir. Ibid. iv. v, Yes, he has learn'd to thrip among the Mothers.
▪ III. thrip
erron. sing. form of Thrips. |