英语词汇whipping的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	whipping
词源	whipping n. 1560s, "a beating with a whip," verbal noun from whip (v.). As "a defeat," 1835, American English colloquial. Also as a present-participle adjective; hence whipping post (c. 1600); whipping boy (1640s); whipping block (1877). Entries linking to whipping whip v. mid-13c., wippen "flap violently," not in Old English, of uncertain origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic wipjan "to move back and forth" (source also of Danish vippe "to raise with a swipe," Middle Dutch, Dutch wippen "to swing," Old High German wipf "swing, impetus"), from PIE root weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble." "The senses of both [noun and verb] no doubt represent several independent adoptions or formations" [OED]. The cookery sense is from 1670s. Related: Whipped; whipping. Whip snake first recorded 1774, so called for its shape. updated on September 25, 2017
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whipping n.