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Subject: What do you call it? Author: PJ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:17:57 02/19/12 Sun The new forum picture made me think about names for spanking because I bet this kid called it a "lickin'." On the forum, we all try to use the common word, "spanking." Truly that is the definition of the act. Where we live and how we were raised and how our parents were raised will influence what this act is called. We all may call it "spanking" on here to keep things uniform but I wonder what it is called at your house. Most southern kids call a spanking a "whipping" regardless of how it is done. That is actually the word we all use. At school it is called a paddling or "getting licks." Sometimes "whipping" is even used to denote a school spanking. Benji actually uses the word spanking a lot and Turtle calls it a "whuppin'" but "whipping" is the word of choice. Mom still uses the word "spanking" a lot but Dad uses "whipping." Grandad called it a "switchin'" or a "lickin'." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: PJ [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:17:11 02/19/12 Sun I am moving this up a bit for discussion [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Moderator [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:50:30 02/19/12 Sun I think this is interesting PJ. If you get a spanking when you are a kid do you just say "I got a spanking".? If you get a spanking when you are a teenager do you you say "I got a whipping". or "I got a licking"? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: PJ to Moderator and All [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 04:20:39 02/20/12 Mon I think you are right. I guess most of the real younger types are used to calling it "spanking" but there comes a point, maybe around 9 years old, where "whipping" catches on even for those OTK hand sessions. Some parents and teachers still use the term "spanking" as sort of part of the punishment as the word carries, wrongfully so, a connotation of immaturity around here. It is also more of a gender thing. GIRLS are more prone to keep the "spanking" term longer than BOYS are. So, I think it is a "tough guy" approach. In this part of the world, spankings are still discussed and talked about but it just sounds bigger and tougher to say, "I got a whipping" or "Dad whipped me" than it is "I got a spanking." It is also acceptable to say something like "Man, Walters tore my a** up" or "Dude, I can't, my Dad wore me out the last time I tried that." Getting one's "a** torn up" or being "worn out" is also acceptable guy speak. Also, we all still respect the spanking. It is totally OK to decline to do something or go somewhere to a peer by saying it did in the past or it would in the future result in a "whipping," getting "worn out," or having your "a** torn up." We are big and bad dudes, we don't get "spankings," we get "whippings." It is really a regional thing. The words "licking," "tanning" and "hiding" would also be OK they are just not regionally in use around here. Also, it is acceptable but not common (except calling the school spanking a paddling) here to describe the spanking in terms of the implement: "switching," "paddling," "belting," or "strapping." As long as the implement sounds severe. Also, part of our regional dialect is to drop the final "g" in most words hence: whippin', lickin', paddlin', switchin', etc. If the term is used, one usually hears "spankin'." For the same regional dialect issues, one often hears, "whuppin'." Turtle is a "whuppin'" kid but he is also from Alabama. Turtle is as country as a turnip green. We want our peers to think we are tough and can take it although, in reality, we are blubbering and begging and hopping around like a little kid. But to hear most guys talk they "took their whipping like a man." [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Mark W. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:46:39 02/19/12 Sun It's a WHIPPING! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Spider [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:04:33 02/20/12 Mon I actually use "spanking" a lot. I also call it a "whipping". My little brother uses "spanking". I don't think I've ever heard him say "whipping". Tony hates the word "whipping". He only calls it a "spanking". But "whipping" is also very common where we live . Don't know why we don't say it as much. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Buffy Rawton (Down) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:33:58 11/27/12 Tue I always say spanking at home and school,and we get pops. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: David [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:36:32 02/20/12 Mon To me "whipping" is not a term for a punishment from parent to child, it's for the kind of thing they used to do in prisons or as torture. I do realize that particularly in the southern United States it can be used to refer to something I'd call a spanking, but the word does make me uncomfortable. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Dylan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:46:32 02/20/12 Mon As a product of northeastern liberal parents, I just get (or got) spanked. No good Southern lingo around here. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Marcus [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:25:02 02/20/12 Mon Hi PJ. Me and Max pretty much just call it a spanking. Sometimes if were talkin to another kid bout it we say "I got my bottom blistered" or "Dad sure turned my butt red last night". They call in gettin a spanking at school even if its a big kid and the teacher uses a paddle. Gage calls his a spankin and Suri calls it a paddling when his Dad does it but he calls it a spanking if Mom does it. Mom and Dad usually say their gonna give us a spanking but sometimes theyll say "Im gonna blister your little butt" or "Do you want to take a red bottom to school today". "The only person I know that calls it a whippin is my Grandpa but he just talks bout it he never does it (Grandma sure will!). See ya PJ [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Rachel [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:12:10 02/20/12 Mon We call them "whoopin's" usually. Occasionally a "spanking" [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Louisa [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:14:08 02/20/12 Mon Here in CT "whipping" means something different and scary. I think of it as what masters did to slaves or occasionally what abusive parents do to their kids. Of course I know it's different in the South and none of your parents are abusive, but I would never call *my* spankings whippings. My mom has always called them plain old "spankings" and so do Em and I. That is only in private though. I don't talk about them to my friends, EVER, so I don't use any words with them. I never hear anybody else talk about getting spanked either really, except occasionally a parent at church will threaten a little kid, "Do you want a spanking?" I have sometimes thought about how I would tell my friends that I get spanked. I don't think I would use the word spanking because it's so associated here with little-kid stuff. I think I would tell them my mom "sometimes uses a belt to punish me" or something like that. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Jonathan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:00:21 02/20/12 Mon I don't recall that we ever called it anything but a spanking or a paddling when I was growing up in the Midwest (US). Mom would refer to it in other ways without using a word for it such as "Do I need to take your pants down?" But the fill-the-blank word for "I got a ______" was spanking or paddling. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Hana [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:41:25 02/20/12 Mon We match Jonathan at our house. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Harry [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:57:14 02/20/12 Mon In the UK a 'spanking' is given over the knee, but older guys who don't go over the knee refer to it by implement, such as 'I was caned' 'I am slippered' 'I'll be belted' etc. It's part of it feeling a 'teen' thing not a 'kid' thing! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Lucy [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:01:20 02/21/12 Tue Over here people talk more about 'smacking' than 'spanking' (when they talk about at all, which isn't often, and then mostly for little kids) In our house it's called smacking most of the time, usually only a hard one with the spatula is called a spanking, but I call it a paddling, not sure why, because that's not a word used at all over here. I think I've picked it up from forums like here. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Harry [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:28:49 02/25/12 Sat There's another expression in the UK, used domestically by grown-ups and kids: a 'good hiding'. A GH is any serious, 'formal' physical punishment such as with a spoon, belt, etc. and it is a word we often use. I don't know the origins. When the cane was used in schools there were several words for it: swishing, whacking, the whack, and others that represented the cane's action. My housemaster at boarding school called it a 'tap on the bottom'. Only it WASN'T a tap! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Kevin [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:41:30 09/15/12 Sat My parents called it a spanking or a paddling when I was older. When I discussed it with friends it was a beatin'. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Charles [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:37:09 09/15/12 Sat We call it getting a case of the red a** [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Jimmy J. [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:49:38 09/19/12 Wed At my home, it was a spanking, unless a belt was involved, then "whippin'" was sometimes used. A threat was sometimes "I'll turn you over my knee". [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: James Builder [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:15:21 01/04/13 Fri its a spanking here or your gonna go over my knee or im gonna whoop your butt but mostly a spanking [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: What do you call it? Author: Joanne [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 06:35:47 08/27/14 Wed I have always called it a spanking [ Post a Reply to This Message ]