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tongue-boring

noun

Definitions

  1. A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.

    • Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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