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.
“Frère Eleuthere a trenchoisons,
Et jʹay orgement de Bretaigne;
Qui garist de roigne et de taigne.”
Le Martyre de S. Denis, etc., p. 129.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.