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flogging en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(Australia, colloquial, euphemistic, not-comparable) A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?
1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, Sydney, page 122:Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.
Synonyms
freaking · fricking · flipping · frigging · fugging
flogging en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
Forms
Deriveds
Florentine flogging
Synonyms
scourging · whipping · flagellation
Translations (33)
tr kırbaçlama (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ka გაწკეპლვა (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ka ფლაგელაცია (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · es azotaina (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · nrf chîngneuse (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu korbácsolás (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · it flagellazione (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · pl chłosta (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu vesszőzés (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu megvesszőzés (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · sq fshikullim (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · es azotamiento (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ka გაროზგვა (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu ostorozás (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · cmn 鞭打 (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · fi ruoskinta (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hy ծեծ (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu megkorbácsolás (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · sv aga (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · de Auspeitschung (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ja 鞭打ち (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · pt açoutamento (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · sv prygel (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · fr flagellation (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ar جَلْد (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · hu megostorozás (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ka გამათრახება (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · it fustigazione (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · es azotada (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · xcl գան (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · ru по́рка (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · tr kamçılama (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping) · pt açoitamento (infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping)
flogging en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of flog
Relateds
caning · scourging · birching · lashing