licking

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A flogging; a beating.


Come over here, you rascal, swim over the mill dam, and if I don't give you the biggest lickin' you ever had.--Crockett, Tour, p. 195.

I promised when I catched him to give him a licking, and I was very much afeard I'd have to break the peace.--Neal, Charcoal Sketches.

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