flog
pronunciation
How to pronounce flog in British English:
UK [flɒg]
How to pronounce flog in American English:
US [flɑg]
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- Verb:
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- beat with a cane
Word Origin
- flog (v.)
- 1670s, slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a schoolboy shortening of Latin flagellare "flagellate" (see flagellum); Century Dictionary suggests perhaps from a Low German word "of homely use, of which the early traces have disappeared." OED finds it presumably onomatopoeic. Figurative use from 1800. Related: Flogged; flogging.
Example
- 1. Instead they flog their defective products and flush their channel inventory on unsuspecting consumers .
- 2. Nowadays , it is an inhumane punishment to flog the disobedient soldiers or sailors .
- 3. Beware of men , for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues .
- 4. How cruel was the man to flog his own son to death !
- 5. It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flog off me during school term .