Brewer's: Oignement de Bretaigne

(French). A sound drubbing. Oignement is a noun corruptly formed from hogner. In Lyons boys called the little cuffs which they gave each other hognes.

Frére Eleuthere a trenchoisons. Et j'ay orgement de Bretaigne; Qui garist de roigne et de taigne.

Le Martyre de S. Denis, etc., p. 129.

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