2. Noun. A beating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pummeling
1. pummel [v] - See also: pummel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pummeling
Literary usage of Pummeling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1881)
"I'll just take and—" And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary
boy—pummeling the air, and kicking and gouging. "Oh, you do, do you? ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"A man who had ridiculed the form of a certain character, likening it to a '
swaggering wrestler ' awoke in the night under a terrible pummeling, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"RIBBIN, pummeling, or punching in the sides. A. sound thrashing is often called "
a good ribbin." RICE, RISE, twigs, as tree tops or brushwood, ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1903)
"I'll just take and—'' And he went through the motions of thrashing an imaginary
boy — pummeling the air, and kicking and gouging. "Oh, you do, do you? ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... and having broken my sword was pummeling him most severely with the handle
about the face and ribs, when he cried out in very good French, ' Tenez, ..."
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