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English
Etymology
From be- (“on; about; all over”) + whack.
Verb
bewhack (third-person singular simple present bewhacks, present participle bewhacking, simple past and past participle bewhacked)
- (transitive, rare) To whack about; whack all over
1840, Edward Howard, Jack Ashore - Volume 2:[…] for he so bewhacked them, and be-pummelled them, notwithstanding the gloves, that, with bandaged heads and blackened eyes, […]
1892, The Cambridge Review, volume 14:Some of the songs were very justly encored, in particular, “Put 'em in the Plot” and “Lovely" with its verse on the Salvation Army, ending “and bewhack the booming drum, Lovely!”
- 1915, The Bellman - Volume 19:
- The “interests” are bewhacked. There is a great to-do.
1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib:So am I happy, beyond all other men, Howaji, for that my woo with X-tiana begins to success itself. She had no fan to bewhack me with.