English

Noun

thrapple ‎(plural thrapples)

1. (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 […].

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, p. 286:

     ...and the old man raised the axe and split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple.

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθrɑpəl/

Noun

thrapple ‎(plural thrapples)

1. windpipe; throat, gullet