lashing
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- noun
- /ˈlæʃɪŋ/
- NSFW
- If you do not open this door, I will give you a lashing like you've never received!
- a tongue-lashing
- a severe lashing
- receive a lashing
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Watch on YouTubeYou're no good, you dirty degenerate, you know, lazy, you know, and there's kind of a whipping and lashing going on within the the person themselves.
- You're no good, you dirty degenerate, you know, lazy, you know, and there's kind of a whipping and lashing going on within the the person themselves.
Examples
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Then you've never had a proper lashing.
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"And you got a lashing for it!" Tim concluded.
Fiction book (2000) -
If a married couple in the community is not living together well, they give them a lashing.
Academic text (2001) -
Have her things packed for me in an hour, or I warn you... ...I've always thought a lashing with a whip would benefit you immensely.
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His wife gave the entire episcopate a fine tongue-lashing, mincing no words, and got over the whole incident in a trice.
Fiction book (1999) -
Then Assistant Secretary of State John Holdridge has recently related, for example, how he received a tongue-lashing from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a 1982 trip to Beijing.
Academic text (1999) -
The captain ordered a lashing for the disobedient sailor as punishment for his actions.
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He received a lashing for the theft, a punishment meant to deter others from similar behavior.
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In the past, judges would sometimes impose a lashing as a severe form of corporal punishment.
Synonyms
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4.2
Hitting a person many times as punishment or violence
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4.8
A hit on a child's bottom as punishment
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5.7
Physical hitting of a person to make them obey rules
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3.8
Beating a person or animal with a whip as punishment
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6.7
A severe beating given to someone as punishment
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6.9
To punish someone by hitting them with a stick
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9.9
Beating the body as a religious ceremony, as punishment, or for sexual pleasure
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An act of beating someone with a whip as punishment
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A severe beating given as punishment
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5.1
A light spanking with a flat board used as punishment
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A beating with a strap or rope given as punishment
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A hard hit given to someone as punishment
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A punishment that involves beating the soles of someone's feet with a stick
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A severe beating that someone gets as punishment
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An act of hitting someone with a long leather whip as punishment
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Etymology
Lashing comes from the simple verb lash, which meant 'to whip' or hit someone with a strap. So a lashing is literally a whipping used as a punishment.