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Definition: Flog |
FlogVerb1. Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced". 2. Beat with a cane. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: FlogSynonyms: cane (v), lambast (v), lambaste (v), lash (v), lather (v), slash (v), strap (v), trounce (v), welt (v), whip (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Pain | Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound). |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flog |
| English words defined with "flog": Cat o' nine tails, cowhide ♦ Flogged. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flog": Ku-Klux-Klan ♦ TO FLOG. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flog" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (flew). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I mean, I have wrong feelings about other guys sometimes, but I feel guilty, and I flog and punish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Shall I flog them as well (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) To flog your log (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eine Motte flog zum Licht (1915) Flog It (2002) Einer flog übers Arbeitsamt (1993) | |
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Peter Jennings | I mean, I think, you know, there's real danger, I think, if you flog this stuff. And I think occasionally people do. If you flog this stuff, you inflame people. |
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| "Flog" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.92% of the time. "Flog" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 68.92% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.62% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flog": flog a dead ♦ flog a dead horse ♦ flog off ♦ flog together. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flog | 53 |
flog it | 4 |
flog on.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikulloj (flagellate, flick, lash, quirt, scourge, switch, whip), shes (bargain away, barter away, betray, dispose of, handle, market, negotiate, realize, sell, vend), rrah me kamzhik (flagellate, lash, sjambok), copë akulli lundrues. (various references) | |
Arabic | ضرب بالسوط (flagellation, switch, whip, whipping), جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, decry, flay, lapidate, pull to pieces, rap, scarify, scourge, slam, slash, squib), دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шибам (beat, cut, drive, lash, scourge, slash, swinge, switch, whale), бия с камшик (cat, cowhide, flay, larrup, lash, quirt, scourge, thong), бия с пръчка (baste, cane, drub, flay, larrup, lather, swish, switch, whip), плющя (crack, flap, slash, smack, snap, swish, whip). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鞭打 (lash, thrash, whip). (various references) | |
Czech | prodávat (carry, handle, market, sell, stock, vend), pobít (nail), mrskat (flap, lash, slash, swish, switch, whip), bièovat (flagellate, lash, slash, whip), šlehat (beat, gush out, lash, sting, switch, whip, whisk). (various references) | |
Dutch | afranselen (beat, clatter, thrash, thresh, whack). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vergi (take a switch to), bastonadi (beat, beat up, thrash, whack). (various references) | |
Finnish | ruoskia (whip), piestä (beat, lash, whip), antaa raippoja (whip). (various references) | |
French | fustiger, fourguer, fouetter, flageller (flagellate), se décarcasser, pousser. (various references) | |
German | peitschen (whip, bullwhips). (various references) | |
Greek | μαστιγώνω (whip). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להלקות (beat, belabour, flagellate, horsewhip, lash, scourge, tan, trounce, whip), להצליף (flail, horsewhip, lash, lashing, slash, swat, swish, switch, tan, whip), לרצע (lash, whip). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ostoroz (to scourge, to whip), korbácsol (to cowhide, to lash, to scourge, to whip). (various references) | |
Italian | fustigare (cane, scourge, switch, whip), frustare (scourge), flagellare (flagellate, flail, lash, scourge), battere (beat, strike, hit, knock, throb). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無駄遣い (flog a dead horse, squander money on, waste money on). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むだづかい (flog a dead horse, squander money on, waste money on). (various references) | |
Manx | custhey (beat, birch, lash). (various references) | |
Norwegian | piske (flogging, lash). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vergastar (whip), punir (punish), penhorar (bond, gage, garnishee, impawn), pôr no prego (pawn), empenhar (commit, engage, gage, hock, impawn, mortgage, pawn, pledge, plight), castigar (punish), bater (strike, beat, bob, hit, knock), açoitar (flap, lash, leather, quirt, swinge, swish, thrash, trounce, whip). (various references) | |
Romanian | flagela (flagellate, scourge), stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, belabour, bruise, distort, drub, murder, whack, whip), critica aspru (castigate, knock, lash into, pan, pick oakum, scathe, slash), buchisi (grind), biciui (censure, horse, horsewhip, lace, lash, scourge, slash, slate, swinge, swish, switch, welt, whip), bate (beat, hit, strike), învinge (conquer, defeat). (various references) | |
Russian | пороть (trounce). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | išibati (lash, lash up), šibati (swish, whang). (various references) | |
Spanish | azotar (scourge, thrash). (various references) | |
Swedish | prygla (cane, welt). (various references) | |
Thai | เฆี่ยน (lash, thrash), ทำด้วยความพยายาม, ขาย (fetch). (various references) | |
Turkish | kanunsuz satmak, kamçılamak (flagellate, hop up, horsewhip, lash, leather, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, tan, welt, whip, whip up), kırbaçlamak (colt, flagellate, horsewhip, lash, scourge, sjambok, slash, swinge, swish, thong, welt, whip), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, drub, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сікти (hash, swish), шмагати (bull-dose, castigate, flick, thrash, thresh, thwack, whip), підганяти (bustle, fit on, goad, hurry, prod, push, touch up, whip). (various references) | |
Welsh | fflangellu (scourge, whip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flagella, flagellabant, flagellabitis, flagellabitur, flagellabunt, flagellandum, flagellas, flagellat, flagellati, flagellatique, flagellato, flagellatum, flagellatus, flagellaverint, flagellavit, flagello, verbero. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flog": flogged, flogger, floggers, flogging, floggings, flogs. (additional references) | |
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"Flog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dlog, Fclo, flafg, Flagg, fleg, flegg, flegm, flegt, fleug, flig, flob, flod, floge, flogg, flogo, floj, flom, floox, flor, flot, flou, flowg, floy, flug, fluge, flugh, fluj, fogx, Folb, folg, folv, fwog, Glogg, Iflo, klog, llog, wlog. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flog" (pronounced flÄ"g) |
| 3 | -l Ä" g | clog, Prolog, slog. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: golf. | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: fog, log. | |
-2 letters: go, lo, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-l-o" | |
+1 letter: flogs, flong, golfs. | |
+2 letters: flagon, flongs, fodgel, golfed, golfer. | |
+3 letters: flagons, flogged, flogger, flotage, flowage, flowing, foaling, foggily, fogless, foiling, folding, foliage, fooling, foreleg, fouling, fowling, furlong, glorify, glowfly, golfers, golfing, goofily, loafing, lofting, rolfing, solfege, songful, ufology, wolfing. | |
+4 letters: bullfrog, coffling, fetology, filmgoer, flagpole, flamingo, flatlong, flexagon, floatage, floating, floccing, flocking, floggers, flogging, flooding, floorage, flooring, flopping, florigen, flossing, flotages, flouring, flouting, flowages, foliaged, foliages, folioing, folksong, fondling, footling, footslog, foozling, forelegs, foulings, fowlings, foxglove, froglike, furlongs, furlough, gatefold, gigaflop, gloomful, goldfish, golfings, gonfalon, goofball, leapfrog, lifelong, longleaf, solfeges, solfeggi, wrongful. | |
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