flog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
ipa: /flɑɡ/
Forms: form: flogs
form: flogging
form: flogged
form: flogged
Etymology: From Middle English *floggen (suggested by flogge (“hammer, sledge”), from Old English *floggian, a stem variant of Proto-Germanic *flukkōną (“to beat”), itself a secondary zero-grade iterative with unetymological -u-, derived from *flōkaną.
The original zero-grade iterative *flakkōną had been misinterpreted as an o-grade. See flack (“to beat”), also as a dialectal noun "a blow, slap". Cognate with Scots flog (“a blow, stripe, flogging”, noun), Scots flog (“thin strip of wood”), Norwegian flak (“a piece torn off, strip”).
Alternatively, a back-formation from flogger, from Low German flogger (“a flail”).
Senses: synonyms: word: lash
word: thrash
word: belt
word: birch
word: cut
word: feague
word: flagellate
word: flog
word: knout
word: lash
word: lather
word: quirt
word: scourge
word: scutch
word: slash
word: strap
word: stripe
word: thrash
word: thresh
word: whip
word: whoop
word: yark
glosses: To whip or scourge as punishment.
examples: text: I did seven laps of Fyshwick with the mechanic today. I was turning lots of heads on the last few, people must of thought I was nuts, flogging the car then stopping, then driving slow then flogging it again.
ref: 2002 October 30, Chris Wardrop, “VL idles rough when warm...”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
glosses: To use something to extreme; to abuse.
examples: text: And then there's my part time job at Telstra Bigpond flogging their cable network for just $67.55/month long term cost, a BARGAIN, and the other part time job flogging Foxtel at something like $50/month.
ref: 2001 January 26, Paul Edwards, “Optus $5/month 5110, T10 and 2288 only 4 days”, in aus.comms.mobile (Usenet):
text: Flanders was able to flog his piece of land, for which he had originally paid £4,000, to one of the largest gold-mining corporations for something like a couple of million smackers.
ref: 2007, Dave Lee (jazz musician), Nothing Rhymes with Silver 2, page 78:
synonyms: word: hawk
word: peddle
word: cheap
word: flog
word: hawk
word: monger
word: peddle
word: retail
word: sell
word: vend
glosses: To sell.
synonyms: word: loot
word: purloin
word: steal
word: abduct
word: abstract
word: appropriate
word: bag
word: bandit
word: bash and grab
word: bone
word: boost
word: burgle
word: burglarize
word: borrow
word: cheat
word: chore
word: commandeer
word: confiscate
word: convert
word: cop
word: cozen
word: crib
word: embezzle
word: filch
word: fleece
word: flog
word: gaffle
word: gilravage
word: half-inch
word: heave
word: heist
word: jack
word: kidnap
word: knock off
word: kipe
word: kyper
word: liberate
word: lift
word: loot
word: make off with
word: mill
word: misappropriate
word: mooch
word: moonlight requisition
word: nick
word: nip
word: own
word: peculate
word: pickpocket
word: pilfer
word: pinch
word: pillage
word: pirate
word: plunder
word: poach
word: pocket
word: prig
word: purloin
word: raid
word: relieve
word: rape
word: ransack
word: reave
word: rip
word: rip off
word: rob
word: run off with
word: snag
word: snatch
word: sniggle
word: snitch
word: swindle
word: swipe
word: thieve
word: walk off with
glosses: To steal something.
examples: text: The Swannies got on a real roll over rounds 16/17 & 18 of 1987. In consecutive SCG matches, they flogged the Eags 30.21 to 10.11, followed that with a 36.20 to 11.7 demolition of the Dons and finally a 31.12 to 15.17 thrashing of Richmond.
ref: 1999 August 16, Mr Ripper, “Nothing to Crow About”, in rec.sport.football.australian (Usenet):
text: Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
ref: 2001 June 9, Cas., “Eng v Aus 1977”, in aus.sport.cricket (Usenet):
text: It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.
ref: 2004 June 5, Greg Vincent }:c{, “POLISER- Roosters v Bulldogs”, in aus.sport.rugby-league (Usenet):
synonyms: word: beat
word: thrash
word: beat
word: bring down
word: chew up
word: eat someone for breakfast
word: eat someone's lunch
word: flog
word: humble
word: kick ass
word: murdelize
word: outfox
word: outguess
word: outrun
word: outsmart
word: outwit
word: overcome
word: overpower
word: overwin
word: own
word: pulverise
word: pwn
word: spank
word: steal the show
word: subdue
word: subvert
word: surmount
word: thrash
word: trounce
word: vanquish
glosses: To defeat easily or convincingly.
examples: text: The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers
ref: 2007 February 6, “Suppliers the losers in Coles-Woolworths war”, in The Age:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Derived terms: flog a dead horse
flog a dead pony
flog-bottomist
floggable
floggee
flogger
flog someone round the fleet
flogster
flog the bishop
flog the clock
flog the dolphin
flog the log
flogworthy
unflogged