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skelp

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5 lettersPronunciation /skɛlp/Sorted eklpsStarts with SEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To beat or slap with the hand.

Word origin

From Middle English skelpen, probably of imitative origin. The noun is from Middle English skelp, from the verb.

Used in a sentence

  • But Mistress Munro would up and be at the door and in she'd yank Andy by the lug, and some said she'd take down his breeks and skelp him, but maybe that was a lie.
  • My stomach was just sore and I was rubbing it. But he just reached and skelped me on the leg and I fell down and he waited for me to get up and he skelped me on the b*m.
  • ... hither blith comes tinker John, Who skelps the kettle, and sweet tunes the drone, […]

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