flog
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: flogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To whip or scourge as punishment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To use something to extreme; to abuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To sell.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To steal something.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
gloss: To defeat easily or convincingly.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
examples: 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.
Anyone with cable watch this on ESPN "History of Cricket" last night? Australia got flogged by an innings in the fourth test.
It'll make the Raiders look good. Getting flogged by a team that got flogged by a team that got flogged by the Bulldogs.
gloss: To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: The environment is paying dearly as producers flog their land. Sustainable agriculture needs a new generation of energised science and technology-trained farmers
gloss: To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
pos: verb
gloss: A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
informal
examples: It follows the ejection of a supporter who allegedly ran towards umpire Mathew Nicholls while calling him a "bald-headed flog" at half-time of the Carlton-Brisbane Lions match last Saturday.
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ryöstöviljellä
lang: Italian
word: sfruttare
lang: Italian
word: spremere
lang: Spanish
word: esquilmar
lang: Spanish
word: explotar