paik
/peɪk
/verb [with object] Scottish & Northern English
Pummel or beat (someone): we’ll paik their hides...
- The daft young lads should all be paiked.
- They've fair paiked the daftie black and blue.
- I have two hands to paik her with.
Origin
Early 16th century (as noun meaning 'a hard blow'): origin unknown; perhaps related to pick1 or peck1.
- school-scholar
- school section
- school shark
- school ship
- schools inspector
- school snapper
- school sores
- schools program
- schools programme
- schools television
- school subject
- schoolteacher
- schoolteaching
- school time
- school trustee
- school vacation
- school voucher
- school wage
- schoolward
- schoolwards
- schoolwork
- schooly
- schoolyard
- school year
- schooner