whip-arse
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Etymology 1[edit]
From whip + arse. Possibly a calque of French fouette-cul, from fouetter (“to whip”) + cul (“arse”).
Noun[edit]
whip-arse (plural whip-arses)
- (obsolete) A schoolmaster.
- 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page FES-FES:
- Feſſe-cul. A Pedanticall whip-arſe.
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Noun[edit]
- Alternative spelling of whoop-ass
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