drubbing
- a beating; a sound thrashing.
- a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest.
Origin of drubbing
drub
- to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
- to drive as if by flogging: Latin grammar was drubbed into their heads.
- to stamp (the feet).
- a blow with a stick or the like.
Origin of drub
Related Words for drubbing
beating, rout, thrashing, whipping, trouncing, dusting, licking, slaughter, wallopingExamples from the Web for drubbing
Contemporary Examples of drubbing
Her Food Network-colleague Guy Fieri opened a new restaurant and Times Square and received a drubbing in The New York Times.
She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike.
The Republican senator took a drubbing in his own state from Democratic strategist Pat Caddell.
After the drubbing I gave James Turrell's Guggenheim mess, it's a pleasure to have found a Light And Space work I can get behind.
And conversely, how will Obama recover from this creaming, this drubbing at the hands of a man he despises?
Historical Examples of drubbing
Then shall he not go without a ducking and eke a drubbing himself!
The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
I fancy I had some vague notion of falling upon him and giving him a drubbing.
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
According to this fact I must admit, that he deserves a drubbing.
Foma GordyeffMaxim Gorky
Now and then a drubbing, but who pays any attention to such things!
Luna BenamorVicente Blasco Ibez
Some of you men 'd be the better for a drubbing every day of your lives.
Rhoda Fleming, CompleteGeorge Meredith
drubbing
- a beating, as with a stick, cudgel, etc
- a comprehensive or heavy defeat, esp in a sporting competition
drub
- to beat as with a stick; cudgel; club
- to defeat utterly, as in a contest
- to drum or stamp (the feet)
- to instil with force or repetitionthe master drubbed Latin into the boys
- a blow, as from a stick
Word Origin for drub
Word Origin and History for drubbing
drub
1630s (in an Oriental travel narrative), probably from Arabic darb "a beating," from daraba "he beat up" (see discussion in OED). Related: Drubbed; Drubbing.