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behell

verb

Etymology

From be- + hell.

  1. derived from *ḱel-✻ — “to cover, conceal, save”
  2. inherited from *haljō✻ — “concealed place, netherworld”
  3. inherited from *hallju✻
  4. inherited from hell
  5. inherited from helle
  6. prefixed as behell — “be + hell”

Definitions

  1. To torture as with pains of hell

    To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).

    • Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.
    • Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.
    • I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for behell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA