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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of skelp.

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Examples

  • With a face like a well-skelped arse, in my humble opinion. on January 1, 2010 at 11: 59 am Claustrophobic inspector

    If Carlsberg Made Justice Secretaries………… « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • 'It's just that the last time I came out a tunnel like that, a nurse skelped my arse and it all kind of went downhill from there.'

    Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004

  • The scissors closed, the launch skelped forward like a dog from in front of the traffic.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • ‘They, feckless things, that left were better than none, though they should hae been skelped for their idleness.’

    Madame Midas 2003

  • Face like a well-skelped arse, an 'you look like you're aboot tae fill your breeks.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Face like a well-skelped arse, an 'you look like you're aboot tae fill your breeks.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Face like a well-skelped arse, an 'you look like you're aboot tae fill your breeks.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • She could have prevented that easily enough if she had brought them up properly and skelped them when they needed it.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • I wish you had caught him an 'skelped the hide off of him.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • Hector, bestriding the compartment like a Colossus, dared them to move a finger under penalty of being "skelped."

    The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

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