Skelp [verb]
Definition of Skelp:
scold, discipline
Synonyms of Skelp:
● Punish
● Censure
● Berate
● Upbraid
● Lash
● Flog
● Ream
● Chasten
● Pummel
● Scourge
● Beat
● Spank
● Baste
● Thrash
● Correct
● Whip
● Chew out
● Lay into
● Ferule
● Lean on
Opposite/Antonyms of Skelp:
● Promote
● Inspirit
● Cheer
● Lose
● Help
● Forgive
● Comfort
● Protect
● Guard
● Assist
● Aid
● Laud
● Praise
Sentence/Example of Skelp:
If dey'd piped me off den, dey'd have took me skelp, all right.
Hed admire to take a skelp, that Tomcat would, but hes shy the sand.
I'm not a-going to have my skelp a-hanging to your belt for days and days, like the rest of them.
I heard one boy say to another:—'I'll give you a skelp (blow) on the puss.'
Some redskins haven't sense enough to let a skelp alone, but he has.
That'll be safer fer my skelp, an' hit'll let less whisky out'n the hole.
But they lifted off old Hodsie's skelp and left him out to die, And if it hadn't been for me, he'd been in the sweet by and by.
It was not every man, he proudly asserted, who could receive and survive a skelp o' the Deil's tail!
Kilt yer coats, ye cutty, and skelp at it withouten fear or dread!
When Bob Mahony hit him the skelp on the head wid the sut bag, his eye popped out of his head on the road.