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drubbing

verb
/ˈdɹʌbɪŋ/

Etymology

From drub + -ing.

  1. derived from *dʰrebʰ-✻ — “to strike, crush, kill”
  2. inherited from *drepaną✻
  3. inherited from *drepan✻
  4. inherited from drepan — “to strike”
  5. inherited from drepen
  6. suffixed as drubbing — “drub + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of drub

  2. A severe beating.

    • His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.

  3. A thorough defeat.

    • The debate team got a drubbing from the competition.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for drubbing. 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