{"id":17389,"date":"2019-01-16T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2019-01-16T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:35:00","slug":"thrapple-wabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"Thrapple &#038; Wabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/thrapple.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Thrapple &amp; Wabbit, Solicitors, Establised 1729\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><br \/>\nIf someone said to you, &#8220;A&#8217;m gey wabbit, an a&#8217;v a sair thrapple comin on&#8221;, would you have any idea what they were talking about?<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of Scots from L Colin Wilson&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/094648791X\/omniglot-20\">Luath Scots Language Learner<\/a>.<\/em> It means, &#8220;I&#8217;m very tired, and I&#8217;ve a sore throat coming on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wabbit<\/strong>, is a childish pronunciation of rabbit in English, and means exhausted, tired out, played out, feeble or without energy in Scots. It is also written wubbit, wibbit or wappit [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/wabbit\">source<\/a>]., and it&#8217;s not certain where it comes from  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/wabbit\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of how it&#8217;s used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She sat doon, clean wabbit oot, pechin&#8217;. = She sat down, completely tired out, panting.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re lookin&#8217; fair wubbit. What ails ye the day? = You&#8217;re looking quite tired. What is wrong with you today?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thrapple<\/strong> [\u02c8\u03b8r\u0251p\u0259l], means the windpipe, gullet or throat; to grip by the throat, throttle, strangle; to suppress (laughter) in the throat; to entangle with cords; to gobble up, to devour. It is also written thropple or throapple [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/thrapple_n1_v1\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It is not certain where it comes from, but may be realted to the English dialect word <strong>thropple<\/strong> (larynx, windpipe), which comes from the Old English <em>\u00ferotbolla<\/em> (windpipe)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/thropple#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of how it&#8217;s used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yer thrapple shuts ticht wi&#8217; the kink-hoast. = Your throat shuts tightly with the chincough (a breath drawn when coughing or laughing).<\/li>\n<li>knot o&#8217; the thrapple = Adam&#8217;s apple<\/li>\n<li>thrapple-deep = up to one&#8217;s throat<\/li>\n<li>thrapple-girth = a cravat or necktie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thrapple &amp; Wabbit would be a good name for a firm of solicitors \/ lawyers perhaps, or a comedy double act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone said to you, &#8220;A&#8217;m gey wabbit, an a&#8217;v a sair thrapple comin on&#8221;, would you have any idea what they were talking about? This is an example of Scots from L Colin Wilson&#8217;s Luath Scots Language Learner. It means, &#8220;I&#8217;m very tired, and I&#8217;ve a sore throat coming on&#8221;. Wabbit, is a childish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}