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whipper-in |
whipperin |
whippersnapper |
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whipping
| whipping boy
| whipping cream
| whipping post
| whipping top
| whipple's penstemon
whipping (root: whip)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whipping has 4 senses
- whipping(n = noun.act) flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment; Array is a kind of beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking
- whipping(n = noun.event) debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping - a sound defeat; Array is a kind of defeat, licking
- whipping(n = noun.artifact) whipstitch, whipstitching - a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally; Array has particulars: overcast, overcasting
- whipping(n = noun.act) beating - the act of overcoming or outdoing; Array is a kind of combat, fight, fighting, scrap
has particulars: self-flagellation, horsewhipping
Derived form verb whip1
Derived form verb whip2
is a kind of embroidery stitch, sewing stitch
Adjective whipping has 1 sense
- whipping(s = adj.all) snappy - smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"
CIDE DICTIONARY
whipping, a & n.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
whipping, n.
1 a beating, esp. with a whip.
2 cord wound round in binding.
1 a beating, esp. with a whip.
2 cord wound round in binding.
Idiom
whipping-boy
1 a scapegoat.
2 hist. a boy educated with a young prince and punished instead of him. whipping-cream cream suitable for whipping. whipping-post hist. a post used for public whippings. whipping-top a top kept spinning by blows of a lash.
1 a scapegoat.
2 hist. a boy educated with a young prince and punished instead of him. whipping-cream cream suitable for whipping. whipping-post hist. a post used for public whippings. whipping-top a top kept spinning by blows of a lash.
THESAURUS
whipping
Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, gear, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping, quietus, rawhiding, rig, rigging, ropework, roping, ruin, running rigging, scourging, service, serving, smash, spanking, standing rigging, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, tackle, tackling, thrashing, trimming, trouncing, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment
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