- pummel
- verb (-meled; also -melled; -meling; also pummelling) Etymology: alteration of pommel Date: 1548 pound, beat
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Pummel — Pummel,der:⇨Dicke(II,1) Pummel→Fettwanst … Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme
Pummel — Pum mel, n. & v. t. Same as {Pommel}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pummel — index beat (strike), fight (battle), lash (strike) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Pummel — Sm dicke Person, besonders Mädchen per. Wortschatz ndd. (20. Jh.) Stammwort. Ebenso Pumpel, schwz. Bumpel. Wohl zu der Sippe von baumeln und ihrem Umkreis. deutsch d … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
pummel — 1540s, alteration of POMMEL (Cf. pommel) in the verbal sense of to beat repeatedly … Etymology dictionary
pummel — vb *beat, pound, buffet, baste, belabor, thrash Analogous words: *strike, hit, smite, slug, punch … New Dictionary of Synonyms
pummel — [v] beat, pommel bash, batter, belt, clout, club, crush, cudgel, flog, hammer, hit, knock, lash, let one have it*, lick, mash, maul, pelt, pound, punch, ram, slug, smack, strike, swat, thrash, trounce, wallop, whale, wham, whip; concepts 189,246 … New thesaurus
pummel — ► VERB (pummelled, pummelling; US pummeled, pummeling) ▪ strike repeatedly, especially with the fists. ORIGIN variant of POMMEL(Cf. ↑pommel) … English terms dictionary
pummel — [pum′əl] vt. pummeled or pummelled, pummeling or pummelling [< POMMEL] to beat or hit with repeated blows, esp. with the fist SYN. BEAT … English World dictionary
pummel — pum|mel [ˈpʌməl] v past tense and past participle pummelled present participle pummelling BrE past tense and past participle pummeled present participle pummeling AmE [T] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: pommel] 1.) to hit someone or something many… … Dictionary of contemporary English
pummel — UK [ˈpʌm(ə)l] / US verb [transitive] Word forms pummel : present tense I/you/we/they pummel he/she/it pummels present participle pummelling past tense pummelled past participle pummelled 1) to cause a lot of damage to a place Hurricane Mitch is… … English dictionary
