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mouth soaping en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable, usually) The act of forcing soap into a person's mouth as punishment, typically for using foul language or for something else related to speech, such as lying.
   • Strict with her own children, she seemed to us, when we were little, a little indifferent to property rights, often extending the hairbrushing or mouth-soaping of her own delinquents to Daisy's. 1970, Elizabeth Kimball, The Man in the Panama Hat, page 20:
   • A mouth soaping does not erase the dirty word from mind. 2000, Raven Walker, The Zen Manager, page 100:
   • Unfortunately the Coomers failed to see the humor of the situation, and I picked up several new obscenities and some fascinating combinations of the mouth-soaping words I already knew. 2001, Lewis Hill, Fetched-Up Yankee, page 94:
   • While not worth a mouth soaping, boredom can indicate the problem of turning inward. 2014, Everyday Inspiration from God's Creation: A Daily Devotional, Barbour Publishing:
   • Applications of justice may range all the way from mouth soaping to murder; many different situations call for different forms of justice. 1967, John Cunyus Hodges, Harbrace College Handbook, page 388:
   • Matthew met the girl's stare with equal force and said calmly, "You have heard a lie, and whoever told you such a thing is not only a liar but a soul in need of a mouth-soaping. 2013, Robert McCammon, Speaks the Nightbird:

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mouthsoap · wash one's mouth out · soap one's mouth