bewhack

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verb

To whack about; whack all over

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Meanings

verbbewhack (third-person singular simple present bewhacks, present participle bewhacking, simple past and past participle bewhacked)

present singular third person bewhacks · participle present bewhacking · participle past bewhacked · past bewhacked

  1. raretransitiveTo whack about; whack all over

    The “interests” are bewhacked. There is a great to-do.

    1915, The Bellman - Volume 19
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    […] for he so bewhacked them, and be-pummelled them, notwithstanding the gloves, that, with bandaged heads and blackened eyes, […]

    1840, Edward Howard, Jack Ashore - Volume 2

    Some of the songs were very justly encored, in particular, “Put 'em in the Plot” and “Lovely" with its verse on the Salvation Army, ending “and bewhack the booming drum, Lovely!”

    1892, The Cambridge Review, volume 14

    So am I happy, beyond all other men, Howaji, for that my woo with X-tiana begins to success itself. She had no fan to bewhack me with.

    1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib

Origin

From be- (“on; about; all over”) + whack.

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APA

bewhack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewhack

MLA

“bewhack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewhack. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bewhack,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bewhack.

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