vbl. sb. [f. TROUNCE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of TROUNCE v.1; a beating, thrashing; also fig. Also attrib.

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a. 1553.  C. Bansley, Treat., xii. (Percy Soc.), 5. Tyll you tricke and trotte youre selfe, to the devyls trounsynge neste.

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c. 1580.  Jefferie, Bugbears, Epil., in Archiv Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897). With rowsynges, with bownsynges, with trownsynges.

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1803.  R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball., 64. In a passion I flew, And gave her a trouncin.

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1867.  Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., Aug., 3. Cheltenham gave Marylebone a fine trouncing.

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