flog
Plural: flogs
Verb
Verb Forms: flogged, flogging, flogs
- To beat someone or something severely with a whip or rod.
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- "The teacher often flogged the students"
- beat with a cane
- To whip or scourge as punishment.
- To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- To sell.
- To steal something.
- To defeat easily or convincingly.
- To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
- To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
Noun
- A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
- A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.
Examples
- He felt like his opponent was trying to flog him with obscure words.
Origin / 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”).
Scrabble Score: 8
flog: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflog: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flog: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary