OEDHence {drubbing} vbl. n., a beating, a thrashing; also transf., fig., and attrib.; drubber, one who drubs or beats.
1650 Howell For. Trav. App. (Arb.) 85 They [the Turks] have sundry sorts of punishments that torture the sense a longer time, as drubbing, guunshing, flaying alive, impaling. 1687 Congreve Old Bach. i. v, He will take a drubbing with as little Noise as a Pulpit Cushion. 1708 Prior Mice 102 These two were sent (or I'm no drubber). 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 266 To hear‥Jupiter threaten Juno with a sound drubbing. 1769 Junius Lett. xxiii. 108 note, Sir Edward Hawke had given the French a drubbing. 1784 Lett. to Honoria & M. II. 36 Who had just suffered a hearty drubbing-bout. 1814 Scott Wav. xxxiv, Beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheep-skin. 1871 J. C. Jeaffreson Ann. Oxford I. xx. 313 The classical drubbings which pupils underwent. 1884 G. Meredith Let. 31 Dec. (1970) II. 755 He got well licked [at football]. A swim in the Baths afterward braced him, for victory or another drubbing. 1955 Times 24 May 11/3 The Communists, who are still licking their wounds after the drubbing they got in 1950. 1959 Spectator 21 Aug. 215/1, I shall be surprised, though, if the Establishment does not take another drubbing in the City over Harrods.
(1650 Howell For. Trav. App. (Arb.) 85 They [the Turks] have sundry sorts of punishments that torture the sense a longer time, as drubbing, guunshing, flaying alive, impaling. 1687 Congreve Old Bach. i. v, He will take a drubbing with as little Noise as a Pulpit Cushion. 1708 Prior Mice 102 These two were sent (or I'm no drubber). 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 266 To hear‥Jupiter threaten Juno with a sound drubbing. 1769 Junius Lett. xxiii. 108 note, Sir Edward Hawke had given the French a drubbing. 1784 Lett. to Honoria & M. II. 36 Who had just suffered a hearty drubbing-bout. 1814 Scott Wav. xxxiv, Beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheep-skin. 1871 J. C. Jeaffreson Ann. Oxford I. xx. 313 The classical drubbings which pupils underwent. 1884 G. Meredith Let. 31 Dec. (1970) II. 755 He got well licked [at football]. A swim in the Baths afterward braced him, for victory or another drubbing. 1955 Times 24 May 11/3 The Communists, who are still licking their wounds after the drubbing they got in 1950. 1959 Spectator 21 Aug. 215/1, I shall be surprised, though, if the Establishment does not take another drubbing in the City over Harrods.
Puromycin is still licking windows,
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Towers of Drub (original mix)
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
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