flog

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.

Noun

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Synonyms

whip

beat

lash

thrash

scourge

hit

flagellate

trounce

strike

welt

cane

horsewhip

belabour

chastise

beat up

slash

lather

strap

lambaste

swinge

lambast

switch

smack

drub

torture

slap

sell

pound

💷

castigate

lam

assault

hit repeatedly

attack

👊

baste

belabor

birch

brutalise

cat

😺

cheap

churn

club

condemn

cudgel

dirt

discipline

ferule

hammer

🔨

larrup

lick

market

Translations

azotar

fouetter

geselen

flageller

geißeln

μαστιγώνω

frustare

auspeitschen

afranselen

fustigare

açoitar

peitschen

chicotear

fustiger

flagellare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flɒɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *floggen

Inherited from Old English: *floggian

Cognate with Scots: flog

Cognate with Norwegian: flak

In summary

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”).