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noun
The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland
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verb
To strangle, to throttle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, dated, transitive
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History
The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul (“trachea, windpipe”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (“laryngeal prominence, Adam’s apple; larynx; epiglottis; animal’s esophagus or neck; flesh covering throat of a deer”) [and other forms] (whence English throat-boll (obsolete)), from Old English þrotbolla [and other forms], from þrote (“throat”) + bolla (“bowl”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“to blow; to swell up”)). The verb is derived from the noun.
