Flog
[flɒg] or [flɑɡ]
Definition
(verb.) beat severely with a whip or rod; 'The teacher often flogged the students'; 'The children were severely trounced'.
Inputed by Betty--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Typist: Nathaniel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Beat, lash, whip, thrash, drub, scourge, flagellate.
Checker: Selma
Definition
v.t. to beat or strike: to lash: to chastise with blows:—pr.p. flog′ging; pa.p. flogged.—n. Flog′ging.
Inputed by Kelly
Examples
- And please, sir, missis wants to know whether Mr. Bumble can spare time to step up there, directly, and flog him--'cause master's out. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- So you pretend it's wrong to flog the gal! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I flog my boy Campbell every hour in the day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I believe Wellington will flog Bonaparte's marshals into the sea the day it pleases him to lift his arm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But won't I flog 'em on to Squashmore, when I take the ribbons? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Now, ye jest take this yer gal and flog her; ye've seen enough on't to know how. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Wal, boys, the best way is to give him the flogging to do, till he gets over his notions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A little flogging for man and woman too would be the best way of preventing such things. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Wal, then, Tom shall have the pleasure of flogging her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'd be glad to see her down for a flogging, I'll bound! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I too am for flogging, said he, since, such as you see me here before you, I am become by mere dint of birch. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I had to take a flogging because I wouldn't do it myself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places to be flogged. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'd a deal sooner be flogged mysel'; but yo're not a common wench, axing yo'r pardon, nor yet have yo' common ways about yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Keeps 'em from feelin' when they 's flogged. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I'd a flogged her into 't, said Legree, spitting, only there's such a press o' work, it don't seem wuth a while to upset her jist now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr. Sam often flogs his pointers cruelly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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