单词 | rawhiding |
释义 | rawhidingn. U.S. The action or an act of beating a person or animal severely with a rawhide whip; = hiding n.2 1; (hence) an act of mistreatment or hazing. Also in extended use: the action of attacking someone or something verbally; a sharp criticism. Cf. cowhiding n. at cowhide v. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of swepinga1300 stripec1485 flagellation1490 whipping1566 whipping-cheer1578 to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580 switchinga1640 horsewhipping1829 rawhiding1848 bashing1877 1848 Knickerbocker 18 519 The editor, it was predicted, would catch a raw-hiding before sun-set. 1899 Cent. Mag. Mar. 656/2 With the progress of civilization, hazing in the colleges is on the wane, and so is ‘rawhiding’ on the railroads. 1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 109 Like as not you got to take a rawhiding for thinking they meant it. 1948 Time 2 Feb. 10/3 Truman stormed into Congress and gave Alexander Fell Whitney, co-leader of the strike, one of the savagest verbal rawhidings ever dealt a private citizen by a President of the U.S. 1973 T. V. Olsen Starbuck's Brand xii. 122 I taken all the rawhiding from you I'm gonna! 1990 Time (U.S.) (Nexis) 9 July 16 Such a breakdown would have been disastrous for Bush politically. It would have guaranteed a rawhiding at the..summit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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