In French, it also refers to a similar dusting implement; the type for chastisement was also known as fouet d'enfant, meaning child's whip.Otherwise it was usually applied on the bare buttocks, adding humiliation to the physical pain, like the English and Commonwealth caning, birching, naval cat o' nine tails, American paddling, et cetera.Jean Bodin, quoting the examination of three witches by Paolo Grillandi of Castiglione at the Castello San Paolo, Spoleto, in his writings about demonology records that the witches referred to the Devil as Master Martinet (Maître Martinet), or the Little Master (Petit maître).In an extended sense, a martinet is any person who believes strict adherence to rules and etiquette is paramount.In 1977, Time magazine famously referred to the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as a "strutting martinet".
