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2010/11/4 -A shellacking - that is, a decisive defeat, according to Merriam-Webster's. The term has an old-timey feel to it, like something used by a stern ...
2010/11/4 -Originally the verb meant 'to coat or treat something with shellac varnish'. This sense goes back to the 19th Century," he says. "The sense in ...
The earliest known use of the noun shellacking is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for shellacking is from 1881, in the writing of Frederick Britten.
2016/3/29 -The slang sense of "beat soundly" is 1920s, perhaps from the notion of shellac as a "finish." Shellacked "drunk" is from 1922 (compare plastered) ...
Its passive participle, shellacked, turned up in a widely syndicated 1922 newspaper article explaining "flapper" slang to baffled parents. In the April 7, 1922 ...
Etymology 1. See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Verb. shellacking. present participle and gerund of shellac. Etymology 2. From shellac + -ing.
2010/11/13 -When President Obama used 'shellacking' in 2010, global audiences puzzled over this American term for defeat, unaware it originated from the ...
early 14c., "to cover or overlay (walls) with plaster;" late 14c., "to coat with a medicative plaster," from plaster (n.) and partly from Old French plastrier " ...
2024/9/21 -I'm curious about the origins of the expression “that team got shellacked” by their opponents, meaning they were badly beaten. What does shellac ...
6日前 -The meaning of SHELLACKING is a decisive defeat : drubbing.