drubbing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drubbing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drubbing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drubbing n a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows Synonym(s): beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drubbing}.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dr[91]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.] To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. --L'Estrange.