pummel

Alteration of pommel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌməl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌməl
• Hyphenation: pum‧mel

pummel (third-person singular simple present pummels, present participle (UK) pummelling or (US) pummeling, simple past and past participle (UK) pummelled or (US) pummeled)

1. To hit or strike heavily and repeatedly.

   Rain pummeled the roof.

   The boxer pummeled his opponent.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

1. To scornfully criticize someone or something.

   The politician was pummeled by the media for his controversial statements.

   • 2010 May 28, Patrick Goldstein, “Critics pummeling ‘Sex and the City 2’”, in The Spokesman-Review‎:

     “There are theorists who have claimed that the movie is getting pummeled especially hard by male film critics who weren’t fans of the show in the first place (though that’s hardly true of the Post’s Smith, who boasted on his blog that he’d watched every episode of the TV show).”

   • 1991, “Sgt. Baker”, performed by Primus (band):

     I will rape your personality
     Pummel you with my own philosophy

pummel (plural pummels)

1. Alternative form of pommel

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏ.məl/

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• Hyphenation: pum‧mel
• Rhymes: -ʏməl

pummel m (plural pummels, diminutive pummeltje n)

1. (derogatory) bumpkin (unsophisticated person, usually male)

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