| 单词 | bum-brushing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbum-brushing bum-brushing n. slang (now rare, chiefly historical) the action or practice of administering a beating on the bottom; (typically) corporal punishment by a schoolteacher; cf. earlier bum-brusher n. ΚΠ 1700 G. Keith Rod for Trepidantium Malleus 13 Young Men of twenty or thirty years of Age, should better be wrought upon by Persuasion, than Bum-brushing. 1746 Gentleman's Mag. July 379/2 (subheading) Whether Bum-brushing raises the Genius of Youth. 1813 W. Terrot Let. 14 June in K. N. Cameron Shelley & his Circle (1970) III. 197 I am going to Grindon for this short Paedagogical Bum brushing Excursion. 1965 A. Fowkes New Face at Repton Hall 110 He's done the bum-brushing of late for our venerable old Doctor man. < as lemmas |
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