1560s, "a beating with a whip," verbal noun from whip (v.). As "a defeat," 1835, American English colloquial. Also as a past participle adjective; hence whipping post (c. 1600); whipping boy (1640s); whipping block (1877).
雙語例句
1. He threatened to give her a whipping.
他威脅要抽她一頓。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Players were whipping their shirts off.
運動員們在飛快地脫襯衫。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He could not possibly have endured a whipping without a whimper.
他不可能一聲不吭地忍受鞭打.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The huntsman was whipping in his pack of hounds.