| 单词 | knuckle-rapping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknuckle-rapping knuckle-rapping adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] justice?a1160 penancec1300 defensiona1382 forfeiture1390 punishment1402 revengementa1513 penition1547 revenge1561 infliction1590 supplice1646 vindictive1726 auto-da-fé1767 woodshedding1940 knuckle-rapping1944 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 243 ‘No,’ he said shortly, but not in the knuckle-rapping way I had half feared. 1968 Globe & Mail Mag. (Toronto) 13 Jan. 3/1 Anti-Dow demonstrations at U of T drew just polite knuckle-rapping. 1968 Listener 18 July 75/1 Did you ever suggest to him..how a field commander might feel when he got one of these knuckle-rappings? 1974 Farm & Country 26 Mar. 4/2 Your knuckle-rapping will teach him to think before he is carried away on a flow of words. < as lemmas |
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