flog

Signification (Anglais)

1. To whip or scourge as punishment.
2. To use something to extreme; to abuse.
3. (slang) To sell.
4. To steal something.
5. To defeat easily or convincingly.
6. To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
7. To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.

fouetter

flageller

donner les verges

battre à coups de fouet

battre

brader

frapper

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/flɒɡ/

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”).

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