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Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man: all in all, George Washington has enjoyed a pretty decent reputation.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2010

Of his foes he is a trouncer, Equal to any Horse Guard Blue.

From Happy-Thought Hall by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

The fact that just six were lost from each ship was made the ground of an assault upon Homer in antiquity by Zoilus, famed as the Homeromastix, or Homer's trouncer.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques