1560s, "a beating with a whip," verbal noun from whip (v.). As "a defeat," 1835, American English colloquial. Also as a past participle adjective; hence whipping post (c. 1600); whipping boy (1640s); whipping block (1877).
双语例句
1. He threatened to give her a whipping.
他威胁要抽她一顿。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Players were whipping their shirts off.
运动员们在飞快地脱衬衫。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He could not possibly have endured a whipping without a whimper.
他不可能一声不吭地忍受鞭打.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The huntsman was whipping in his pack of hounds.
