mouth soaping

mouth soaping (usually uncountable, plural mouth soapings)

1. The act of forcing soap into a person's mouth as punishment, typically for using foul language or for something else related to speech, such as lying.
   • 1967, John Cunyus Hodges, Harbrace College Handbook‎, page 388:

     Applications of justice may range all the way from mouth soaping to murder; many different situations call for different forms of justice.

   • 1970, Elizabeth Kimball, The Man in the Panama Hat‎, page 20:

     Strict with her own children, she seemed to us, when we were little, a little indifferent to property rights, often extending the hairbrushing or mouth-soaping of her own delinquents to Daisy's.

   • 2000, Raven Walker, The Zen Manager‎, page 100:

     A mouth soaping does not erase the dirty word from mind.

   • 2001, Lewis Hill, Fetched-Up Yankee‎, page 94:

     Unfortunately the Coomers failed to see the humor of the situation, and I picked up several new obscenities and some fascinating combinations of the mouth-soaping words I already knew.

   • 2013, Robert McCammon, Speaks the Nightbird‎:

     Matthew met the girl's stare with equal force and said calmly, "You have heard a lie, and whoever told you such a thing is not only a liar but a soul in need of a mouth-soaping.

   • 2014, Everyday Inspiration from God's Creation: A Daily Devotional‎, Barbour Publishing:

     While not worth a mouth soaping, boredom can indicate the problem of turning inward.

• mouthsoap
• wash one's mouth out
• soap one's mouth