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[ flog, flawg ] / flɒg, flɔg / SEE SYNONYMS FOR flog ON THESAURUS.COM
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 flog1670–80; perhaps blend of flay and jog, variant of jag1 to prick, slash; but cf. flagellate SYNONYMS FOR flogSEE SYNONYMS FOR flog ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM flogflog·ga·ble, adjectiveflogger, nouno·ver·flog, verb (used with object), o·ver·flogged, o·ver·flog·ging.un·flog·ga·ble, adjective un·flogged, adjective Words nearby flogflock paper, flocky, Flodden, floe, floeberg, flog, flokati, flong, flood, flood basalt, flood control Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for flogBut how hard is it to make a doll that looks like the picture of the doll you are using to flog the doll itself? ROFL : Dubious Prince William Doll Advert Banned For Not Being Accurate Representation|Tom Sykes|October 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST But now, in the present climate, the number is handy for the Pentagon to flog around town, so there it is. Michael Tomasky: Politico Assists Pentagon Scaremongering|Michael Tomasky|November 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST He was minded to flog an Indian or two, and thus extract information; but calmer counsels prevailed. The Terms of Surrender|Louis Tracy If he ever fails to do that, I'll flog him out of his boots! When Grandmamma Was New|Marion Harland
Would you flog me, father, if I went swimming without leave? Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys|Various Philips was furious, and providing himself with a birch rod, threatened to flog Pope. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)|Lewis Melville How I have burned in desire to jump upon them and tear the things off and flog them, as they deserve. Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly|David Bryant Fulton
British Dictionary definitions for flog
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 Derived forms of flogflogger, nounflogging, nounWord Origin for flogC17: probably from Latin flagellāre; see flagellant Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with flogThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to flogchastise, spank, castigate, whale, cane, hide, scourge, beat, flay, trounce, paddle, whack, leather, stripe, flagellate, thrash, hit, wax, belt, lather |