drubbing
noun
[ ˈdrʌbɪŋ ]
• a beating; a thrashing.
• "I'll give the scoundrels a drubbing if I can!"
Similar:
beating,
thrashing,
walloping,
thumping,
battering,
pounding,
pummelling,
slapping,
smacking,
punching,
bludgeoning,
thwacking,
cuffing,
buffeting,
mauling,
pelting,
lambasting,
whipping,
flogging,
flaying,
birching,
cudgelling,
clubbing,
hammering,
licking,
clobbering,
belting,
bashing,
pasting,
whacking,
slugging,
tanning,
biffing,
bopping,
hiding,
beating-up,
duffing-up,
doing-over,
working-over,
kicking,
drub
verb
• hit or beat (someone) repeatedly.
• "he was drubbed with tiresome regularity by his classmates"
Origin:
early 17th century: probably from Arabic ḍaraba ‘to beat, bastinado’. The first recorded uses in English are by travellers in the Near East referring specifically to the punishment of bastinado.
