fouetter

All this set me against him, Grandmamma had signified to him her dislike for corporal punishment, and therefore he dared not beat us, but he frequently THREATENED us, particularly myself, with the cane, and would utter the word fouetter as though it were fouatter in an expressive and detestable way which always gave me the idea that to whip me would afford him the greatest possible satisfaction.

Boyhood 2003

All this set me against him, Grandmamma had signified to him her dislike for corporal punishment, and therefore he dared not beat us, but he frequently THREATENED us, particularly myself, with the cane, and would utter the word fouetter as though it were fouatter in an expressive and detestable way which always gave me the idea that to whip me would afford him the greatest possible satisfaction.

Boyhood Leo Tolstoy 1869

Pis des poireau c bien les poireau pour fouetter la peau d'lait des bisho!!

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

"Vous savez," says the author of the Escraignes (Veillées) Dijonnaises, "que l'on a à Dijon cette peute coutume de fouetter les filles le jour des Innocens, la quelle est entretenue par les braves amoureux, pour avoir occasion de donner quelques chose aux estrennes à leurs amoureuses."

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

The Gallic equivalent of having ‘other fish to fry’ is having other cats to whip d’autres chats à fouetter.

A new toy (from hell) 2005

The Gallic equivalent of having ‘other fish to fry’ is having other cats to whip d’autres chats à fouetter.

superfly guy 2005

You have other cats to flog ” "d'autres chats a fouetter," as the French proverb has it.

Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt Tr 1888