Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who flogs.
- noun A mallet used to beat the bung-stave of a cask to loosen the bung.
- noun In bridge, a separate score-sheet or-book in which the winnings and losings on each rubber are entered. Also called wash-book.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who flogs.
- noun A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
flogs . - noun BDSM A
lightweight whip with multiplelashes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders)
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the protest groups, known as April 6, said a notorious police commander in Alexandria, known as the "flogger of the activists," had been promoted to a top security position in the city.
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It is generally stated that the flogger is a sexual pervert, a Sadist, and undoubtedly there are pathological cases where men find sexual gratification in inflicting or in watching the infliction of pain.
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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LH: Your work, like the work of Rachel Zolf, Margaret Christakos, and others--Dennis Lee for example--privileges sound over meaning. i love the word "flogger" and "lammy" and of course their sound suggests meaning to me, but what do you say to readers who are looking for more representative imagery, more meaning?
Natalie Walschots, Thumbscrews Lemon Hound 2007
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LH: Your work, like the work of Rachel Zolf, Margaret Christakos, and others--Dennis Lee for example--privileges sound over meaning. i love the word "flogger" and "lammy" and of course their sound suggests meaning to me, but what do you say to readers who are looking for more representative imagery, more meaning?
Archive 2007-08-01 Lemon Hound 2007
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But if there is a large quantity this does not pay, and the contractor brings in another artist called a "flogger," who, in nine cases out of ten, in my time, was an Irishman.
The Life Story of an Old Rebel John Denvir
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ya know 'flogger' is a good name for a lamb...only a few years 'til the 'F' animals, right farmgirl?
Soup & Sandwich 2006
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In the 18th century, a captain could be both a patriarch and a tyrant, a drinker and flogger.
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James Cook a more enthusiastic flogger than Bligh, the author notes, but Bligh had been, I think, over-promoted.
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Microsoft has emerged as a chief flogger of an antitrust case against Google.
The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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I wore my leather vest with a chain, my cheap-ass "executioner" mask, carried an axe and chained the flogger to my arm so it hung right at hand level, and went as a torturer.
Snow Queen matrixleap 2009
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In Australia, the term "flogger" is sometimes used rather than "pom-pom". Floggers are very large, heavy pom-poms in the team's colors. They sometimes require more than one person to lift them, and they are waved about when a goal is scored.
Floggers are an important part of Australian rules football culture and cheer-squads.
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March 6, 2018