отодрать

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Russian

Etymology

ото- (oto-) +‎ драть (dratʹ)

Pronunciation

Verb

отодра́ть (otodrátʹpf (imperfective отдира́ть)

  1. to tear off, to strip off
  2. (colloquial) to give a sound flogging
    отодра́ть кого́-либо за у́шиotodrátʹ kovó-libo za úšito pull someone's ears
    • 1881, Николай Лесков, “Глава четырнадцатая”, in Левша; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Lefty, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013:
      Тут и другие придворные, видя, что левши дело выгорело, начали его целовать, а Платов ему сто рублей дал и говорит:
      — Прости меня, братец, что я тебя за волосья отодрал.
      Tut i drugije pridvornyje, vidja, što levši delo vygorelo, načali jevo celovatʹ, a Platov jemu sto rublej dal i govorit:
      — Prosti menja, bratec, što ja tebja za volosʹja otodral.
      Here the other courtiers, seeing that Lefty’s case had come off well, began to kiss him, and Platov gave him a hundred roubles and said:
      “Forgive me, brother, for yanking your hair.”
  3. (vulgar) (use sexually) to bang, to screw

Conjugation