| 释义 |
whippable, a.|ˈhwɪpəb(ə)l|
[f. whip v. 6 + -able.]
Liable to be whipped.
1853Blackw. Mag. Dec. 643 Two sorrowful, whippable alumni stood each beside a ‘tree of knowledge’. 1881Phil Robinson Under the Punkah 216 The distinctive feature of this period of life [sc. boyhood], is popularly supposed to be that it is a whippable age. |