leathering

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Synonyms for leathering

verb slap, usually on bottom

Antonyms for leathering

Word Origin & History

Old English leðer (in compounds only) "hide, skin, leather," from Proto-Germanic *lethran (cf. Old Norse leðr, Old Frisian lether, Old Saxon lethar, Middle Dutch, Dutch leder, Old High German ledar, German leder), from PIE *letro- "leather" (cf. Old Irish lethar, Welsh lledr, Breton lezr). As an adjective from early 14c.; it acquired a secondary sense of "sado-masochistic" 1980s, having achieved that status in homosexual jargon in the 1970s.

Example Sentences for leathering

He was well advised to send me home for a leathering at my father's hands.

And I got the leathering, too, though it was three months after.

Any way, whatever the reason of it was, he had Patsy Flaherty leathering the mare like the devil.

He will not always suffer a leathering from a man whom he knows he dare not now hit back.

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