Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To beat severely with a whip or rod.
- v. Informal To publicize aggressively: flogging a new book.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beat or strike.
- Specifically To whip; chastise with repeated blows, as of a rod or whip.
- To beat, in the sense of surpass; excel.
- In flshing, to lash (the water) with the line.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment.
- v. transitive To use something to extreme; to abuse.
- v. transitive, UK To sell something.
- v. transitive, Australia, New Zealand To steal something.
- v. transitive, Australia, New Zealand To defeat easily or convincingly.
- v. transitive, agriculture To exploit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
WordNet 3.0
- v. beat with a cane
- v. beat severely with a whip or rod
Etymologies
- Perhaps from alteration of Latin flagellāre; see flagellate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'll not fight yo, but I'll flog yo -- _flog yo_ -- d 'yo hear?”
“And the only other thing that I'm here to flog is my book, as Anna Porter says.”
“Love how you cite kos as saying the source was somewhere other than his stew of diarists, who picked something up, expanded it to something they chose to "flog" - their words, and think that's a reliable source.”
“The carnival-like grounds are comprised of booths in a flea market-like setting where proprietors in canvas tents sell merchandise, independent record labels flog their artists, and magazine publishers and non-profit orgs ply their way.”
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“By heavens, I'll make him obey, or I'll -- "-- Here Mr Easy stopped before the word flog was fairly out of his mouth, --" I'll know the reason why, Dr Middleton. ”
“DigitalBulletin says Virgin has said no more than it`ll offer a million tracks, the identical standard fare the Big Four record labels flog to all their customers at exorbitant wholesale prices.”
“Or fail like the word "flog" (a fake blog for promotional purposes)?”
“Last October, a "traveling blog" featuring a couple extolling the virtues of Wal-Mart during a pilgrimage through its stores turned out to be a fake blog (or "flog"), produced by the retail giant's media corporation, the international Edelman firm.”
“He's been so lazy these last few weeks, I think I need to flog him or something does anyone use the term "flog" anymore?”
“An addendum to the above, it's a pity that the Democrats are focusing on this issue to "flog" the Republicans before the elections.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flog’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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Verbages
puddle, kowtow, tessellate, defalcate, embezzle, enkindle, ablate, frivol, moonlight, tongue-tie, gobble, pettifog and 58 more...
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Scriptie: Master and Commander
Nice ambient words from the movie. (With apologies to Patrick O'Brian.) Aaaah, life at sea...aboard a hulk of the British navy in 1805...
surprise, acheron, guns, souls, oceans, battlefields, prize, burn, sink, privateer, hammock, lantern and 118 more...
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Odd Anagrams
Sets of anagrams that have contrasting or related meanings.
casual, causal, parental, paternal, prenatal, atoners, senator, treason, listen, silent, dictionary, indicatory and 110 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 139 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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the physical experience
wank, snog, tendon, sinew, sauce shelf, pet, arse, astigmatism, bisexual, brassiere, breast, climax and 186 more...
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Spiftacular's Words
spiffy, orchestra, skulduggery, antipathy, leap, sonata, opus, dug, deed, fabulous, nifty, glisten and 221 more...
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My Personnal Words List on WordNik
Eloquence, dismay, abolish, Procrastination, hallowed, Audacity, provision, flue gas, perceive, aprodith, cult, mischief and 136 more...
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sfan
wan, citroen, aramaic, arabic, hebrew, mosque, oran, synagogue, anisette, almighty, blum, cremieux and 55 more...
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St. Trinian's (2007)
Words from a 2007 'St. Trinian's' film.
wreath, lully, insufferable, pikey, ugly betty, posh totty, nitwit, dosser, concoction, teetotal, blight, namby-pamby and 21 more...
Tweets
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Kristianto2010 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. Dec 11, 2010
oroboros Contranym: promote aggressively v. punish harshly. Mar 14, 2010
drbarb Tech-speak meaning comes from fake + blog = flog. A blog that isn't written by a real person, or by who it is attributed to. Can be used as a verb, as "she was hired to flog for the PR company." Jun 9, 2009
sakhalinskii In the context of BDSM, a rather perverse combination of excrement and astrology. Jul 29, 2008
bestiary i do enjoy a good flogging. Jul 29, 2008
soph2 foto-log, or vlog in English Jul 29, 2008
sillygoose Fake blog, ostensibly written by an individual but actually maintained by a marketing company. Dec 30, 2007
oroboros Golf in reverse (q.v.,for more). Jul 10, 2007