cudgel KUH-juhl, noun:
A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club.
transitive verb:
To beat with or as if with a cudgel.
Cudgel derives from Old English cycgel.
The Grand Vizier Kuprili of Constantinople, for example,… closed the city’s coffeehouses. Anyone caught drinking coffee was soundly cudgeled.
–-Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
You know, I’d trade a good whomp for some 7-11 coffee right about now.
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