Skelping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Skelping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of skelp.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of skelp.
More Meanings
- large; whopping
- A beating or slapping.
Example Sentences
Jonty's instinctive awestruck expression had been curtailed by repeated skelpings across the head by his father, Henry.
The word was old Scots for a good spanking, particularly in relation to the punishment of a miscreant child, and the Scots, after centuries of skelpings at the hands of the English themselves, absolutely loved it.
Word Forms
- skelpings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gang, strapping, band, sheet, banding, strip.
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