PUMMEL

PRONUNCIATION: (PUHM-uhl)

MEANING: verb tr.: To beat or pound, with or as if with fists.

ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of pommel (the knob at the end of a sword’s handle; the raised front of a saddle), from Old French pomel, from Latin pomum (fruit, apple). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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PUN, MEL - ordering the voice of Warner Brothers cartoons to produce outrageous wordplay

MUMMEL - a dram of champagne

pHUMMEL - the negative logarithm of a porcelain figurine of one or more Bavarian children