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dogwhip

noun

Etymology

From dog + whip.

  1. derived from *wipjaną✻ — “to move back and forth”
  2. derived from wippen — “to move quickly”
  3. derived from wippen — “to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”
  4. inherited from whippen
  5. compounded as dogwhip — “dog + whip”

Definitions

  1. A whip intended for use on dogs.

    • Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...
    • On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.

  2. To beat with a dogwhip.

    • The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]

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