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December 16, 2009 by Grant Barrett

Thropple

Today’s word of the day is thropple, an old word for windpipe or throat. A variant is thrapple. The verb form of thropple means to throttle or strangle. It might be related to the ancient throat-boll, which meant Adam’s apple.

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