Concept cluster: Actions > Whipping or flogging
n
Alternative spelling of able whackets [(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games.]
adj
Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
n
(US slang, regional) The hands.
n
(in the plural, UK, East Anglia, Northamptonshire) Loppings from felled trees.
v
(US) To work as a bullwhacker, driving a bullock team.
v
Alternative form of clapperclaw [(obsolete) To fight and scratch.]
n
Alternative spelling of chamar [A member of a Tribe who works in leather and Agriculture; a tanner or leather-worker.]
n
The work of a cowpuncher, or cowboy.
n
(figuratively) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
n
A torture method consisting of whipping a person's bare feet.
n
The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, originally applied to slaves and prisoners as a punishment, then to horses as a form of deception as to the horse's condition, and later used in BDSM.
n
a person who whips themselves or others either as part of a religious penance or for sexual gratification.
n
Someone who flagellates; a whipper.
adj
Relating to flagellation or whipping.
n
A female flagellator; a woman who administers a whipping.
n
One who administers punishment by whipping.
n
A penchant for whipping, or being whipped.
v
To lash or whip.
adj
For which a person can be flogged.
n
One who receives a flogging.
n
One who flogs.
n
(slang, archaic) One who flogs or beats.
n
(BDSM) A two-handed style of flagellation involving the rhythmic use of a pair of matching floggers, one in each hand.
adj
(colloquial) Shaped like a hoop.
v
To punish by spanking or caning.
n
(slang, often in the plural) A knuckle duster.
n
Synonym of knuckle dragger
n
A stress position used as corporal punishment in parts of South Asia. The punished person has to squat and loop the arms behind the knees to grip the ears.
n
(obsolete) A schoolmaster who flogs his pupils.
n
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
v
Alternative form of pussywhip [(slang, transitive, of a woman) To dominate a partner, especially by sexual politics.]
n
Someone who spanks.
n
(UK, slang) The chore of peeling potatoes, especially when given as a punishment.
n
(archaic) One who flogs or thrashes.
n
A means of enacting a mild or ineffective symbolic punishment.
n
(music) Alternative spelling of wippen [(music) A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ]
n
(historical) A boy that was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince.
n
The female equivalent of a whipping boy.
n
(informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy

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