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- French · calque offouette-cul
- English todaywhip-arse
From whip + arse. Possibly a calque of French fouette-cul, from fouetter (“to whip”) + cul (“arse”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
whip-arse
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French fouette-cul