单词 | well-whipped |
释义 | well-whippedadj. Thoroughly or skilfully whipped or beaten. Also in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > whipped well-whipped1579 jerked1671 whipped1713 horsewhippedc1774 flagellated1836 knouted1851 flagellate1876 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1076 It were good to whippe them on a skaffold, and then to sende them naked, well whipped, vnto the Captaines of their enemies. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 245 Well whipped, he went to the king, shewing him his stripes. ?1647 E. Winslow Hypocrisie Unmasked 54 Hee went from hence well whipt. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight 5 All the well-whipt Cream of Courtly Sense. 1798 J. Barry Let. Dilettanti Soc. 66 The well-whipped sleeping top of a school-boy. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 191 She spins round like a well-whipped top. 1864 in Papers relating to Foreign Relations U.S. (1874) III. 75 I see General Grant and his well-whipped army with their faces toward Washington. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. 724 Like a wellwhipped childs botty. 2005 Gay Times Dec. 105/1 This well-whipped meringue of..humour, irony, pastiche, and showing up/out/off. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1579 |
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