Meaning of лупіць | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to peel, to bark (to remove the skin, bark or outer covering)
   transitive
2. to rip off, to squeeze (to charge an excessively high or unfair price; to oppress with taxes)
   figuratively, transitive
3. to thrash, to flog, to spank, to beat, to batter (to hit or strike violently and repeatedly)
   transitive

Examples

“Chlap žral šunku, mazal si máslo na chleba, loupal si vajíčka, zkrátka žil.”

The bastard guzzled ham, spread butter on his bread, shelled his eggs—in short he lived like a pig in clover.

“А пасьледненькі грош / З цябе лупіць казна, / Хоць у хаце дзецям / Хлеба солі няма.”

The treasury squeezes even the last penny from you, despite you having neither bread nor salt for the children at home.

“The simple father was beginning to submit that he hoped his son, the quondam Grinder, huffed and cuffed, and flogged and badged, and taught, as parrots are, by a brute jobbed into his place of schoolmaster with as much fitness for it as a hound, might not have been educated on quite a right plan in some undiscovered respect, when Mr. Dombey angrily repeating "The usual return!" led the Major away.”

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