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whipworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From whip + -worthy.

Meanings

1. Deserving a whipping.
   • "We'll give those whipworthy bastards what they deserve yet, see if we don't." 2001, Harry Turtledove, Sentry Peak:
   • "The whipworthy rogue would not have used me so foully had he not outweighed me by two to one." 1960, Lyon Sprague De Camp, The bronze god of Rhodes:
   • Segal (1987, 137–169) recognized the omnipresent threat of the whip and, emphasizing that the whipworthy slave never gets whipped, put forward the idea of the comedy as carnival. 2012, Roberta Stewart, Plautus and Roman Slavery, page 95:

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