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(This punishment may or may not be fictional.)
Boy A has a bottle of alcohol in his room which his Dad finds. His Dad then forces him to drink the entire bottle in order to punish him.
What is this punishment known as?
Examples of context:
- I find the best way to stop someone doing something like that, is some good, old fashioned, _____.
- ... And then Dad forced me to drink the whole bottle! I didn't think people actually _______ in real life!
Perhaps forced overindulgence works here though it doesn't exactly fit in the second example sentence.
I find the best way to stop someone doing something like that, is some good, old fashioned, forced overindulgence.
ODO:
forced ADJECTIVE
1 Obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power.
‘Some even view it as a form of forced medication and mental and physical control.’
overindulgence NOUN
1 The action or fact of having too much of something enjoyable.
‘In fact, there was so much of it I rode the train home feeling thoroughly sick from overindulgence.’
Rub someone's nose in it means to use the 'bad' object in particular to punish the 'bad' house pet or child. In conversation, it means to make things worse by pointing them out or reminding the victim to re-experience the pain.
Fig. to remind one of something one has done wrong; to remind one of something bad or unfortunate that has happened. (Alludes to a method of housebreaking pets.) When Bob failed his exam, his brother rubbed his nose in it. Mary knows she shouldn't have broken off her engagement. Don't rub her nose in it.
Not to be graphic, but the origin is that pet owners misguidedly thought they could train a dog by rubbing its nose in its own business (waste). The idea was that if pets experience the unpleasant result of 'making' in the wrong spot, that will end their misbehavior.
Boy-A has a bottle of alcohol in his room which his Dad finds. His Dad then force-feeds him the entire bottle in order to punish him.
Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or other animal against their will. The term "gavage" (pronunciation: /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/) refers to the supplying of a nutritional substance by means of a small plastic feeding tube passed through the nose (nasogastric) or mouth (orogastric) into the stomach. In hospitals, some psychiatric patients can also be restrained so that sedatives can be injected into them; this happens if patients have been non-compliant with their instructions. — Wikipedia
Obviously Boy-A is drinking not eating, but I think the term force-feed will be understood.
Nauseation is an uncommon word meaning the process of making someone feel sick.
It could be used in the OPs context:
I find the best way to stop someone doing something like that, is some good, old fashioned, nauseation.
.... And then Dad forced me to drink the whole bottle! I didn't think people actually nauseated in real life!
A similar punishment type involves making someone continue a prohibited act ad nauseam. A prefect might order a classmate to run round and round the field as punishment for running in the corridor, or stand in the playground and constantly repeat the same word over and over again as punishment for bad language.
Looked at from another angle the word encouragement could be used. The idea is that if a person does something he shouldn't he should be encouraged to carry on as it will eventually make him lose interest, so if the father simply "encouraged" rather than forced the boy to drink the rest of the bottle, perhaps sharing it, this would also deter the son from drinking in the future.
I find the best way to stop someone doing something like that, is some good, old fashioned, encouragement.
