mouth soaping
English
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Noun
[edit]mouth soaping (usually uncountable, plural mouth soapings)
- The act of forcing soap into a person's mouth as punishment, typically for using foul language or for something else related to speech, such as lying.
- 1967, John Cunyus Hodges, Harbrace College Handbook[1], page 388:
- Applications of justice may range all the way from mouth soaping to murder; many different situations call for different forms of justice.
- 1970, Elizabeth Kimball, The Man in the Panama Hat[2], page 20:
- Strict with her own children, she seemed to us, when we were little, a little indifferent to property rights, often extending the hairbrushing or mouth-soaping of her own delinquents to Daisy's.
- 2000, Raven Walker, The Zen Manager[3], page 100:
- A mouth soaping does not erase the dirty word from mind.
- 2001, Lewis Hill, Fetched-Up Yankee[4], page 94:
- Unfortunately the Coomers failed to see the humor of the situation, and I picked up several new obscenities and some fascinating combinations of the mouth-soaping words I already knew.
- 2013, Robert McCammon, Speaks the Nightbird[5]:
- Matthew met the girl's stare with equal force and said calmly, "You have heard a lie, and whoever told you such a thing is not only a liar but a soul in need of a mouth-soaping.
- 2014, Everyday Inspiration from God's Creation: A Daily Devotional[6], Barbour Publishing:
- While not worth a mouth soaping, boredom can indicate the problem of turning inward.