RichThesaurus
clobbering
vs
horsewhipping
clobbering
noun
A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
adj
That clobbers.
horsewhipping
noun
A beating with a horsewhip.
How often have the words
clobbering
and
horsewhipping
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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