belaborousadj.
Given to belabouring or thrashing.Apparently an isolated use.
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1860 All Year Round 21 Apr. 47 Coleridge, who had many a thrashing..from the belaborous Doctor..at the Blue~coat School.
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adj.1860- to get a monk on
- to get a move on
- to get a move on oneself
- to get a packet
- to get a person at advantage
- to get a person at an advantage
- to get a person at avail
- to get a person bang to rights
- to get a person by the short hairs
- to get a person cold
- to get a person dead to rights
- to get a person in wrong
- to get a person nowhere
- to get a person on a slow boat to china
- to get a person on his etc feet
- to get a person on his feet
- to get a person on his her feet
- to get a person on the back foot
- to get a person on the raw
- to get a person somewhere
- to get a person to rights
- to get a person where the hair is short
- to get a person's back
- to get a person's back up
- to get a person's drift