| 单词 | a course of sprouts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa course of sprouts U.S. a course of sprouts: a beating or flogging; (in later use) a period or instance of harsh or severe discipline or training. Chiefly in to put (a person) through a course of sprouts. Now rare. [The motivation for the phrase is unclear.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > discipline chastec1200 school1579 disciplinate1584 discipline1711 enregiment1831 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 1839 Trans. 8th Ann. Meeting Western Lit. Inst. 238 I..object to the practice of whipping in school, because it never does any good...I have my proof in the experience of every one who has been taken through a course of sprouts by any modern pedagogue. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 14 See that he be put through a ‘regular course of sprouts’. 1923 S. Anderson Many Marriages ii. ii. 79 That old Irish woman, with her temper, her drinking, and her love of loud picturesque profanity has managed to put her daughter through a course of sprouts. 1965 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 59 693 But even the Lawyer's Guide is only a course of sprouts, and the individual attorney will be frustrated if he attempts to find answers to particular problems. < as lemmas |
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