wale on

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

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""One of my coke babies had retinal damage and seizures and to me that is just as severe as somebody waling on a kid," she says."
"I figured that if he was there, I would let him wale on me as a sort of punishment, wale on me just for a few seconds before I started my action and hit back."
"She tears into him, fists waling on him like paddle wheels."

See wale (“mark with welts”).

wales on (present, singular) waling on (participle, present) waled on (participle, past) waled on (past)

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