SYNONYMS | EXAMPLES | WORD ORIGIN verb (used with object), flogged, flog·ging. to beat with a whip, stick, etc., especially as punishment; whip; scourge.
Slang to sell, especially aggressively or vigorously. to promote; publicize. Origin of flog 1670–80; perhaps blend of
flay and
jog, variant of
jag1 to prick, slash; but cf.
flagellate Related forms flog·ga·ble , adjective flog·ger , noun o·ver·flog , verb (used with object), o·ver·flogged, o·ver·flog·ging. un·flog·ga·ble , adjective un·flogged , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for flogged chastise ,
spank ,
castigate ,
whale ,
cane ,
hide ,
scourge ,
beat ,
flay ,
trounce ,
paddle ,
whack ,
leather ,
stripe ,
flagellate ,
thrash ,
hit ,
wax ,
belt ,
lather Examples from the Web for flogged Contemporary Examples of flogged In one recent case, he said a man accused of kidnapping was hung from an iron bar and flogged with a machete.
But it was a ruse; Northup was kidnapped, flogged , and sold for $1,000 at a slave market in New Orleans.
Since December 21, we have been flogged with news item after news item about the threatened closure of Russian adoption.
Historical Examples of flogged Boys were flogged at boundaries, to impress the boundaries on their memory.
Boys were flogged when criminals were hanged, to impress the awful warning on them.
None of us got flogged , nor were we even threatened with the gang-way.
But wayward children must, with all kindness, be flogged into obedience.
His eyes wandered, his lips trembled, and he looked like a man who had been flogged .
British Dictionary definitions for flogged verb flogs , flogging or flogged (tr) to beat harshly, esp with a whip, strap, etc
(tr) British slang to sell
(intr) (of a sail) to flap noisily in the wind
(intr) to make progress by painful work
NZ to steal
flog a dead horse mainly British to harp on some long discarded subject to pursue the solution of a problem long realized to be insoluble flog to death to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
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Derived Forms flogger , noun flogging , noun Word Origin for flog C17: probably from Latin flagellāre ; see flagellant
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Word Origin and History for flogged v. 1670s, slang, perhaps a schoolboy shortening of Latin flagellare "flagellate." Related: Flogged ; flogging .
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