wrop
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɒp/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɹɑp/
- Rhymes: -ɒp, -ɑp
Verb
wrop (third-person singular simple present wrops, present participle wropping, simple past and past participle wropped)
- (dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of wrap
- 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] :
- […] as Peter doth ſaye / they which were clene eſcaped / of them are agayne wropped in erroures.
- 1935, Cabins in the Laurel, University of North Carolina Press, published 19 March 2014, →ISBN, page 231:
- […] So I wropped 'em up in a five dollar bill and tied 'em up and sent 'em, and they ain't back yet.”
- 1941, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, volume 13, Washington, DC: Library of Congress, OCLC 29077332, page 339:
- All de niggers had shoes and plenty warm clothes and we wrop up at night in everything we can git.
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Anagrams
- pow'r, prow