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Definition of Drubbings
1. drubbing [n] - See also: drubbing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drubbings
Literary usage of Drubbings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Nay, if it is of truths that Master Moor goes for telling, quoth Sancho, then,
verily among the drubbings of my master will be found mine,—for they never ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... and even there your worship came off with half an ear and half a helmet; and
from that day to this we have had nothing but drubbings upon drubbings, ..."
3. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... infinite ' drubbings which, in different en- ' counters, ... among the drubbings
of my ' mader, he has mentioned mine alio j 1 for they never took the ..."
4. Builders of the Republic: Some Great Americans who Have Aided in the Making ...by Margherita Arlina Hamm by Margherita Arlina Hamm (1902)
"One or two drubbings will be of service to us and one severe defeat to the enemy,
... The Continentals were to have not one or two, but very many drubbings, ..."
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